While Zeller attenuates her usual overemoting, she occasionally overcompensates, resulting in monotone narration, which might vaguely seem appropriate for Khai, but disappointingly not for Hoang’s more lively characters. Of course, sparks fly and delight ensues.for characters and readers both. Oh, and if everything works out, the wedding hall-yes, for Khai and Esme-has already been booked for auspicious August 8. In a case of mother-knows-best, Khai unexpectedly gets a roommate-cum-fiancée when his mother returns from Vietnam with Esme, a hotel maid who’s agreed-only for the sake of improving the lives of her daughter, mother, and grandmother-to accompany Khai to a summer’s worth of family weddings. He’s also autistic and convinced he’s incapable of emotional attachments. Initially introduced as the younger brother of Quotient’s protagonist’s best friend, Khai assumes leading man status here-he’s single, movie-star handsome, successful. Hoang transfers a minor character from her popular 2018 debut, The Kiss Quotient, into the spotlight in her engaging follow-up.
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