Crazy Rich Asians
2013 • 450 pages
Ratings125
Average rating3.7
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Ratings125
Average rating3.7
(Description comes from the 2013 Anchor Books edition)
When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees on a summer in Singapore to visit her boyfriend's "traditional" Chinese family, she expects the visit to be relaxing, if a little dull. She has no idea....
Nick's childhood home is a palace. He grew up riding in more private planes than cars. He and Rachel will be attending the wedding of the year. Oh, and Nick just happens to be one of Asia's more eligible bachelors--and his formidable mother isn't so sure Rachel is the right one for him.
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3 primary booksCrazy Rich Asians is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Kevin Kwan.
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I enjoy fiction that lets you take a peak into foreign cultures, but this picture of Singapore elite seems very fake. The characters are all very black and white, clearly divided into good and evil, it almost seems like a children's book. And the plot is all too predictable.
Wonderful hilarious overstuffed ridiculous candy in novel form. A beach read crossed with a little Edith Wharton and maybe some Jane Austen, even. I devoured this in barely a week and had trouble putting it down when I needed to go to bed. Great fluffy distraction and exactly what I needed right now. Can't wait to read the sequel!
(Read Harder 2017: #2 Read a debut novel; #11 Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location; #24 Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color.)
This was interesting enough. I found Rachel and Nick pretty boring and not very fleshed out though. Astrid, Peik Lin, and even Eddie were more interesting. Wikipedia says Kwan wanted to introduce modern Asia to North America, and I do think the book was successful that way.
Highly entertaining, atmospheric, and ridiculous. Can't wait for the movie in August.
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