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.

Jasmine has worked in her parents donut shop for… well, her whole life. Well now i'm sad for two reasons (this was bad and i have no way to eat a donut rn)įew things get my attention more than donuts. I'm not saying that only people who have their sh*t together deserve love, because I am obsessed with myself and I am someone who can thrive in no more than 1-2 life categories at once, if there are approximately 8 life categories, but I AM saying that reading about a passionless woman in her mid-twenties who lives at home and is more guided by her mom than most high schoolers I know.is not fun.Įspecially if the person she's falling in love with is also not fun, and also neither is their romance.īottom line: A book that only made me think about what it and I were missing! (Every aspect of a good love story and a ring-shaped pastry, respectively.) This involves a very annoying protagonist with very little to offer who is still somehow out-annoying'd and out-unappealing'd by her love interest, and also they have quietly somehow been obsessed with each other for many years, and also there's this weird love triangle for no reason. Hard to say which was more difficult to endure. 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.ġ) It made me drastically need to eat a donut, in the donut desert that is my current world, and 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.

The donut trap a novel