There are many reviews that felt the 💞 that I missed. But I’d be hard pressed to classify it as romance. This is definitely a contemporary, women’s fiction novel. It came off as an awkward romance.🤷🏻♀️ I didn’t feel the chemistry between Jasmine and her new beau. Dont have an iOS or Android device, then listen in your browse on any PC or Mac computer.
Listen to 'The Donut Trap: A Novel' on your iOS and Android device. I just would have liked to have felt her struggle to come into her own a bit more. The Donut Trap: A Novel Unabridged Audio Book Download or Stream instantly more than 55,000 audiobooks. As a daughter of an Immigrant parent I completely understood the extra pressures Jasmine faced. Fingers crossed her family will accept him.🤞
Her own dreams, wishes and needs take a backseat.Īfter a chance reunion with a previous college crush, Jasmine’s hopes for a real chance at happiness are re-ignited. As the daughter of immigrant parents, the responsibilities and expectations of her were enormous. Even now, after college Jasmine is still expected to spend all her remaining time helping her parents run the store. With both sets of parents against their relationship, a family legacy about to shut down, and the reappearance of an old high school flame, Jasmine must scheme to find a solution that satisfies her family’s expectations and can get her out of the donut trap once and for all.Jasmine has worked in her parents donut shop for… well, her whole life. Worse, he doesn’t think she’s perfect either.
He’s everything she should wish for, until a disastrous dinner reveals Alex isn’t as perfect as she thinks. Not only is he successful and easy on the eyes, to her parents’ delight, he’s also Chinese. Help comes in the form of an old college crush, Alex Lai. She wants to break free from her daily grind, but when a hike in rent threatens the survival of their shop, her parents rely on her more than ever. Jasmine quickly loses herself in a cyclical routine of donuts, Netflix, and sleep. With no boyfriend or job prospects, Jasmine returns home to work at her parents’ donut shop. Jasmine Tran has landed herself behind bars-maple bars that is. Julie Tieu sparkles in this debut romantic comedy, which is charmingly reminiscent of the TV show Kim’s Convenience and Frankly in Love by David Yoon, about a young woman who feels caught in the life her parents have made for her until she falls in love and finds a way out of the donut trap.
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