The Bride Test

The Bride Test is a 2019 romance novel written by Helen Hoang.

The book is a sequel to The Kiss Quotient. It follows Esme, a hotel maid who gets offered to accompany Khai, the autistic cousin of Michael from the first book who never had a girlfriend before, to weddings. It was published by Berkley in May 2019.

Hoang says that she wanted to subvert the harmful tropes surrounding autism by writing an autistic character through protagonist Khai who is perceived by others as cold and heartless when this is not actually the case. The book was inspired by her mother's immigrant story, with Esme's story coming directly from conversations with her mom about what it was like to be poor in Vietnam and what it was like when she first came to the U.S. Hoang describes The Bride Test as "Green Card meets Four Weddings and a Funeral—but with autism."

The Bride Test received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.