

Helen Hoang has changed the genre with this one. And they are so good I’ll even think about lending you my copies.

These are my first two five star reads of the year. If you haven’t read either of these, I HIGHLY recommend you do. And she’s seriously sensory, like I felt like I could taste all the food her characters made in the books. She doesn’t back away from discussing Vietnamese culture or autism, and she does it flawlessly. She writes compassionate, complex characters that make it feel like you are reading a rom-com for the first time.

So, drum roll please, both of the books were by Helen Hoang.Īfter reading these books, Helen Hoang has become one of my new favorite authors. But these books were amazing and completely deserving of all the stars. Out of the five books I’ve already finished this month, TWO have been five-star reads! That’s a lot for me - I hand four stars out to books like they’re candy. Even though it’s only the first month, I can tell 2020 is going to be a great reading year for me.
