China Rich Girlfriend

When I first started reading this series, I expected it to focus much more on Rachel and Nick's relationship with each other, but it was a lot wider than that.

What I realised as I went on is, you will not be able to remember every single person mentioned here and I think that's intentional. It's overwhelming and confusing in so many ways. At the same time... the moment you let go of that, you are going to have much more fun.
Some of the characters getting more of a role here were a lot of fun. I especially loved Kitty, the chapter with her adviser trying to help her become classy was amazing. The guidelines, they made me laugh so hard. Don't get me wrong, Kitty is an awful person, she really is, but she was so entertaining in her dumb and greedy ways.

I still didn't buy Kevin Kwan as an emotional writer. He is amazing at being funny, being over the top entertaining. The deep and emotional moments... well. Yeah, no, they didn't work for me, they often felt melodramatic in the not so brilliant way. Often I didn't feel like I cared that much about them.
Which is funny, because I get super invested in the dumb drama. The big speech Rachel throws at Colette? AMAZING.

On a side note, I watched the movie version of Crazy Rich Asians with my mother during Christmas. While is was different from the book, it was pretty great, we both enjoyed it, though sometimes I had to explain things to her, mostly about the connections between people.
Apparently, the movie of this one is on the way, we will be watching it for sure.