It’s interesting the Vietnamese language angle: that’s something you get in an audiobook that you would not get if you were reading this romance to yourself. Both of them grow so much over the course of the story. So he’s working through this relationship and figuring out how he feels about Esme and also recognizing that he, of course, does feel emotions, it’s just differently.
Part of the story is that he’s always been told that he doesn’t feel emotions the right way. She has talked a bit about what that meant for her, to be writing an autistic hero, and an autistic heroine in The Kiss Quotient. You can hear her English getting stronger and stronger as she goes. The narrator, Emily, did a great job translating that too. And you hear Esme learning English more as you go through the story. The two of them are conversing to each other: she’s talking in Vietnamese, he’s talking in English, they both understand a little bit. Khai, the main male character, is Vietnamese also, but he doesn’t have the language very strongly. But I really love this one, because added in the mix is this amazing character, Esme. The author Helen Hoang’s first book was The Kiss Quotient, which was also excellent.
“I chose some of my all-time favourites that I would recommend to other people” It’s all done within context, but you can hear the right tones and hear how it’s supposed to be pronounced, which adds so much to the story. I love that it’s both of those things.Īnd hearing Emily Woo Zeller narrate means you get to hear all these Vietnamese words and phrases and conversations in a way that you can understand what’s going on. So, it’s both a story of her meeting him in these funny circumstances, but also it’s a story of her figuring out her way in America, figuring out English and making her own path. She’s doing it partly because she wants to have a better life for her family and for her daughter. It’s about a woman from Vietnam, Esme, who’s convinced to come and try to woo a young man by his mother. It’s a story about two people falling in love, of course, because that’s the heart of every romance, but it’s also a story of coming to America. First up you’ve chosen The Bride Test, which is part of a series of romance novels written by Helen Hoang with Emily Woo Zeller narrating the audiobook. Let’s go through the ones you’ve picked and what’s so good about them. Foreign Policy & International Relationsīy Helen Hoang and Emily Woo Zeller (narrator) Read.
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