Crazy Rich Asians

by Kevin Kwan

Paperback, 544 pages

Published May 20, 2014 by Anchor Canada.

ISBN:: 978-0-385-67907-7

(7 reviews)

(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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Kadomi@buecher.pnpde.social reviewed Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Made me crave Singapore hawker food, that's about it

3 stars

I watched the movie when it came out, and I think I liked the movie much better. The book felt kinda anti-climactic, a never-ending series of scenes where the lavish wealth of the Singaporean and HK families were described in detail. The main plot about American-Chinese Rachel visiting her boyfriend's family in Singapore for the first time, and the fallout from that felt less like a plot, it was just there kinda? But I just found out that this is likely because there are more books that continue the story, which makes it feel very open-ended at the end.

But meh, it was well-written, but probably not captivating enough that I want to bother more. If I was Rachel Chu, I would ditch that rich dude posthaste, considering how he treated her, and all the lies.