Its content deserves three stars. The additional star is for its theme of Hong Kong.
The protagonists in the three stories can be seen as a whole in which manifested the mentality and social status of 'typical' Hong Kong people, that is, highly adaptable, materialistic, and bourgeois. They would not attach to any kind of romantic relationship, nor commit to a career. Neither are they fascinated with certain types of ideology. Their identities are fluid (Hong Kong Chinese, Hongkonger, British overseas citizens?) and such fragmentation renders nothing but exquisite and luxury goods intelligible, as you can see from the ending of the second story. The book successfully captured part of the Zeitgeist of Hong Kong though it deserves interrogation. In short, it is not "Hong Kong Trilogy" but "Hong Kong Island Trilogy".