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China Rich Girlfriend
(Crazy Rich Asians #2)
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Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret emails, art world scandals, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather.
On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest ...more
On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest ...more
Paperback, 496 pages
Published
May 31st 2016
by Anchor Canada
(first published June 16th 2015)
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Another fun, soapy trifle of a novel. I wish these books had just a bit more ambition. Mostly it's extravagant descriptions of extravagant wealth with a glimmer of plot loosely holding everything together. The absurdity of Crazy Rich Asians is dialed way up for this second book in the series. It's just beyond. But again, lots and lots of fun.
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Rachel Chu managed to (unwittingly) snag one of the most eligible bachelors - Mr. Nicholas Young, heir to an obscene fortune.![]()
I know the average outfit in your wardrobe costs more than a semester of tuition at Princeton, but it makes you look like a community college during summertime: NO CLASS.
And they are ready to get married, expect one thing... she wants her dad to walk her down the aisle.
Rachel's mother escaped an abusive marriage and never looked back, except to mourn the fa ...more

Though I prefer the first book, this was still a solid continuation of the series.
Did you think that Crazy Rich Asians was over the top with the extravagant displays of wealth? Well, buckle on in! The constant description of palatial homes and couture clothes got to be exhausting after the ninth shopping trip. (I know it's necessary for the satire, but my point still stands.)
I enjoyed how Kevin Kwan expanded upon the scope of his first novel, showing us the wild lives of Hong Kong and Shanghai' ...more
Did you think that Crazy Rich Asians was over the top with the extravagant displays of wealth? Well, buckle on in! The constant description of palatial homes and couture clothes got to be exhausting after the ninth shopping trip. (I know it's necessary for the satire, but my point still stands.)
I enjoyed how Kevin Kwan expanded upon the scope of his first novel, showing us the wild lives of Hong Kong and Shanghai' ...more

Reading this, I can't help feel anything but disappointed. In Crazy Rich Asians, there was equal parts drama, gossip and brand name-droppings, but China Rich Girlfriend is just absolutely tabloid material.
Some SPOILERS of course...
For starters, Kevin Kwan turns his two main characters, Rachel and Nick, into two-dimensional beings who just exist in the book to give us a better-than-gossip-column eyes into the lives of China's Fu Er Dai (children of billionaires), and Guan Er Dai (children of p ...more
Some SPOILERS of course...
For starters, Kevin Kwan turns his two main characters, Rachel and Nick, into two-dimensional beings who just exist in the book to give us a better-than-gossip-column eyes into the lives of China's Fu Er Dai (children of billionaires), and Guan Er Dai (children of p ...more

A very special kind of something else is what half the characters are. Life-style bizarro?! Is that some kind of lit stream?
IS that Kitty on the cover?
Q:
I know the average outfit in your wardrobe costs more than a semester of tuition at Princeton, but it makes you look like a community college during summertime: NO CLASS. (c)
Q:
People are messy. Life gets messy. Things are not always going to work out perfectly just because you want them to. (c)
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In short, she was a special consultant for social ...more
IS that Kitty on the cover?
Q:
I know the average outfit in your wardrobe costs more than a semester of tuition at Princeton, but it makes you look like a community college during summertime: NO CLASS. (c)
Q:
People are messy. Life gets messy. Things are not always going to work out perfectly just because you want them to. (c)
Q:
In short, she was a special consultant for social ...more

China Rich Girlfriend should have been 100 pages long.

No lie, this is basically a short story that has almost 300 pages of filler.
NONSENSE FILLER.
For example, no one can enter a room without Kwan describing in agonizing detail everything about what they are wearing. And not just a normal description of their clothes, oh no. The color and texture of the fabric, where the fabric was bought by the designer, where the designer grew up, and what the designer's nana fed them for breakfast when they w ...more

No lie, this is basically a short story that has almost 300 pages of filler.
NONSENSE FILLER.
For example, no one can enter a room without Kwan describing in agonizing detail everything about what they are wearing. And not just a normal description of their clothes, oh no. The color and texture of the fabric, where the fabric was bought by the designer, where the designer grew up, and what the designer's nana fed them for breakfast when they w ...more

China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan is a 2015 Doubleday publication.
Another outstanding installment in this wildly entertaining series!
As the story opens, a couple of years have passed since our initial introduction to these “Crazy Rich Asians”.
Nick and Rachel are on the cusp of getting married, but Eleanor is still meddling and Rachel is still hoping to locate her long, lost father.
Astrid’s husband's company has seen unprecedented success, putting him on equal footing with his wife, but the ...more
Another outstanding installment in this wildly entertaining series!
As the story opens, a couple of years have passed since our initial introduction to these “Crazy Rich Asians”.
Nick and Rachel are on the cusp of getting married, but Eleanor is still meddling and Rachel is still hoping to locate her long, lost father.
Astrid’s husband's company has seen unprecedented success, putting him on equal footing with his wife, but the ...more

(So I know this review will seem like I'm ripping the book apart, and yes I think these books lack a lot, but I recognize that they have value! I would still recommend them, and despite what this review seems like, I do actually enjoy them and will be reading the 3rd book. It's just easier for me to put a finger on the things I disliked, while the things I liked were more ambiguous.)
Sometimes when reading I found myself being fed up with all the rich people problems, but then a few minutes later ...more
Sometimes when reading I found myself being fed up with all the rich people problems, but then a few minutes later ...more

Nov 23, 2018
Nenia ✨️ I yeet my books back and forth ✨️ Campbell
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So I actually really enjoyed CRAZY RICH ASIANS, but seeing as how this is my month of disappointing sequels, my expectations weren't too high for CHINA RICH GIRLFRIEND. Consistency may be key, and yet so many authors fail when it comes to penning that follow-up to a successful first book. Not so here! While I was a little apprehensive at the beginning of CHINA RICH, I ultimately ended up devouring the book with the same amount of enthusi ...more

I’m really enjoying this series. It’s fun, doesn’t take itself too seriously, and is over the top entertaining.
In China Rich Girlfriend, we follow Nick and Rachel two years after the events of Crazy Rich Asians. Nick is estranged from his family, and on the brink of marrying Rachel while still helping her in the search for her long lost father. A chance encounter between Nick’s mother and a Chinese playboy soon thrusts Rachel back into the lives of the Chinese ultra rich, and the opportunity to ...more
In China Rich Girlfriend, we follow Nick and Rachel two years after the events of Crazy Rich Asians. Nick is estranged from his family, and on the brink of marrying Rachel while still helping her in the search for her long lost father. A chance encounter between Nick’s mother and a Chinese playboy soon thrusts Rachel back into the lives of the Chinese ultra rich, and the opportunity to ...more

Apr 04, 2018
Jennifer
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it was amazing
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review of another edition
Recommended to Jennifer by:
Love Fool
★★★★½
I think I liked this one better than the first and you've gotta admit that's rare for sequels. Laugh-out-loud funny, educational in an urban dictionary kind of way, tons of drama, romance, and even a little bit of suspense/mystery this time around. It was amazing!
My favorite quote:
“People are messy. Life gets messy. Things are not always going to work out perfectly just because you want them to.” ...more
I think I liked this one better than the first and you've gotta admit that's rare for sequels. Laugh-out-loud funny, educational in an urban dictionary kind of way, tons of drama, romance, and even a little bit of suspense/mystery this time around. It was amazing!
My favorite quote:
“People are messy. Life gets messy. Things are not always going to work out perfectly just because you want them to.” ...more

Aug 21, 2018
Nikki (Saturday Nite Reader)
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
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4.5 stars rounded up
Just as fun as the first book! The perfect vacation read. It reads super quick, because you just eat it up.
What we get in China Rich Girlfriend:
1. More Rachel & Nick: #relationshipgoals they are the new Anna Faris & Chris Pratt since they are no longer together (who else is still sad about that?!)
2. Who is Rachel’s dad? And, the rest of her new family?
3. Kitty Pong: the hilarity continues and it’s glorious
4. Astrid and Michael. Astrid and Charlie. Whose team is Astrid on…you ...more

Less enjoyable than the first, with not much of a plot, characters that serve as clothes hangers and pretty much the whole book being a tour of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous in Modern China. There's a (desperate) attempt to inject some mystery at the end but it's hardly enough to save a plodding read. Only saving grace was a note written by an image consultant to a Chinese-born woman trying to hobnob with Hong Kong's elite.
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The review below is a general review of both of the first two books. Shouldn't really be any spoilers, but just so you know. Review originally appeared on my blog, Shoulda Coulda Woulda Books.
Time on to-read: A year or more for the first book, second wasn't on it until I read the first.
Reason for not picking up: Straight up perversity. The hype annoyed me. It seemed like a standard-issue chick-lit that happened to be set in Asia. And while I like many novels typically dismissed as "chick lit", u ...more
Time on to-read: A year or more for the first book, second wasn't on it until I read the first.
Reason for not picking up: Straight up perversity. The hype annoyed me. It seemed like a standard-issue chick-lit that happened to be set in Asia. And while I like many novels typically dismissed as "chick lit", u ...more

Sep 11, 2018
Jessica
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
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Me: How could this story get any crazier and over-the-top than the first one?
Kevin Kwan: Hold my imported Tiger beer.
Kevin Kwan: Hold my imported Tiger beer.

Mini review:
Spoilers ahead!
Trigger warning: Poisoning, mention of car accident, mention of death and critical injuries, PTSD, cheating, child abuse, drugs, abusive marriages, and invading privacy via technology.
Thoroughly enjoyed this sequel! Rachel and Nick in China was a blast to read about. The food, the culture and the clothes were vividly described!
I enjoyed the backstory regarding Rachel’s father. Her brother Carlton was so sweet. I understood Shaoyen’s conflict with accepting Rachel. H ...more
Spoilers ahead!
Trigger warning: Poisoning, mention of car accident, mention of death and critical injuries, PTSD, cheating, child abuse, drugs, abusive marriages, and invading privacy via technology.
Thoroughly enjoyed this sequel! Rachel and Nick in China was a blast to read about. The food, the culture and the clothes were vividly described!
I enjoyed the backstory regarding Rachel’s father. Her brother Carlton was so sweet. I understood Shaoyen’s conflict with accepting Rachel. H ...more

Despite my initial cautious skepticism, I was won over by Crazy Rich Asians – especially author Kevin Kwan’s footnotes about specific aspects of Singaporean life – and I fell hard for last summer’s delightful movie adaptation.
So when I saw a shiny new paperback copy of the book’s sequel at my local library, I pounced on it. Okay, okay. It’s not great literature, but it’s fun, breezy, escapist entertainment, with lots of interesting tidbits about Asian high society I had no access to before.
As w ...more
So when I saw a shiny new paperback copy of the book’s sequel at my local library, I pounced on it. Okay, okay. It’s not great literature, but it’s fun, breezy, escapist entertainment, with lots of interesting tidbits about Asian high society I had no access to before.
As w ...more

3.75 Stars
Eleanor has a bank account in London which she is hiding from everyone including her friends. Rachel and Nick got engaged and were planning to get married next week. Shaoyen (Mrs. Bao) and Carlton (Rachel’s stepmom and half brother) moved to Singapore for Carlton’s physiotherapy and Eleanor was helping them as she wanted to know more about the family. Carlton was a carbon copy of Rachel, which was the main reason Eleanor was so interested in knowing about them.
Charlie (Astrid’s ex boy ...more
Eleanor has a bank account in London which she is hiding from everyone including her friends. Rachel and Nick got engaged and were planning to get married next week. Shaoyen (Mrs. Bao) and Carlton (Rachel’s stepmom and half brother) moved to Singapore for Carlton’s physiotherapy and Eleanor was helping them as she wanted to know more about the family. Carlton was a carbon copy of Rachel, which was the main reason Eleanor was so interested in knowing about them.
Charlie (Astrid’s ex boy ...more

I enjoy this soap opera-esq series. Great summer reading.
The adventures among some of the wealthiest people on Earth continue. These people consider wealthy to start over a billion dollars and if you only have a few million dollars you are just on your way to being wealthy. People do some crazy things with money like owning a private 747 jet and putting a koi pond on the plane among other luxuries.
Rachel and Nick get married and his mother starts a whole lot of other drama to try and make up wi ...more
The adventures among some of the wealthiest people on Earth continue. These people consider wealthy to start over a billion dollars and if you only have a few million dollars you are just on your way to being wealthy. People do some crazy things with money like owning a private 747 jet and putting a koi pond on the plane among other luxuries.
Rachel and Nick get married and his mother starts a whole lot of other drama to try and make up wi ...more

I think it's important to go into this book not expecting Rachel & Nick to be the focus of the story. In actuality, though they were central to book #1, there were still a lot of other plots and characters' storylines that Kwan focuses on and expands in book #2. I think the movie adaptation of CRA definitely does a good job of synthesizing and concentrating on Rachel and Nick, but the books, though events-wise are similar, have a wider lens.
This book, and the series as a whole, is much more sati ...more
This book, and the series as a whole, is much more sati ...more

Jan 07, 2018
Megan Johnson
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
general-fiction
Very rarely do I read a sequel that I enjoy more than I enjoyed the first installment, but for me this was one of those. It takes the characters of Crazy Rich Asians and puts them in situations that were even more enjoyable than before. It's got everything a good book needs - love, hate, poison, and MEGA RICH DRAMA.
What did I think? While I found some of Crazy Rich Asians to be slow and less interesting than others, China Rich Girlfriend was full of cliffhangers and moments that had me truly fe ...more
What did I think? While I found some of Crazy Rich Asians to be slow and less interesting than others, China Rich Girlfriend was full of cliffhangers and moments that had me truly fe ...more

Mar 04, 2019
Cortney LaScola - The Bookworm Myrtle Beach
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
In comparison to Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend had a lot more fashion/name dropping. While I enjoyed that part of the story, that's not what I'm here for. I want the drama and the characters!
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The sparkle and gleeful playfulness of the first book has congealed into an overlong, over plotted and orgiastic mess of consumer idiocy in this second installment in the saga of Rachel Chu and Nick Young, Astrid Leong and others.
Kwan should have stuck to the central Singaporean setting and his central characters rather than introducing a whole raft of new figures (too puppet-like to call characters) and multiplying his storylines. The saddest thing is that in nearly 400 pages he still doesn't r ...more
Kwan should have stuck to the central Singaporean setting and his central characters rather than introducing a whole raft of new figures (too puppet-like to call characters) and multiplying his storylines. The saddest thing is that in nearly 400 pages he still doesn't r ...more

Feb 12, 2015
Dianne
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arcs-and-goodreads-first-reads
I received this from the Goodreads First Reads program. Thanks to Goodreads and Knopf Doubleday for an advance reader copy of this book.
Don't judge me, but I got a kick out of "Crazy Rich Asians" by Kevin Kwan and this is more of the same. Campy, over the top, name dropping silliness, I know, but good fun. This would be a great beach read or escapist fare between weightier tomes.
If you didn't read "Crazy Rich Asians," you don't necessarily need to read that first to enjoy this, although it does ...more
Don't judge me, but I got a kick out of "Crazy Rich Asians" by Kevin Kwan and this is more of the same. Campy, over the top, name dropping silliness, I know, but good fun. This would be a great beach read or escapist fare between weightier tomes.
If you didn't read "Crazy Rich Asians," you don't necessarily need to read that first to enjoy this, although it does ...more

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KEVIN KWAN is the author of Crazy Rich Asians, the international bestselling novel that has been translated into more than 30 languages. Its sequel, China Rich Girlfriend, was released in 2015, and Rich People Problems, the final book in the trilogy, followed in 2017. For several weeks in 2018, the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy commanded the top three positions of the New York Times bestseller list -
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