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At first the over-the-top characters grated on me, but gradually I got into the spirit of things and found myself enjoying the ludicrous melodrama. I ended up really enjoying this!! Balancing the melodrama with Rachel’s down-to-earth American attitude was genius. The story is told with an omniscient narrator, bouncing from scene to scene a like a TV soap, with each vignette ending on a tiny cliff-hanger.
The ending surprised me a bit, because some of the storylines were not resolved. I guess that ...more
The ending surprised me a bit, because some of the storylines were not resolved. I guess that ...more
Meh. I was looking for a silly, fun book to read over the holidays. It was certainly silly, but lacked the acerbic wit of his second book in this series, China Rich Girlfriend. It’s all a fairly ridiculous premise: soap opera drama amongst the old money Singapore families and their jet setting children, with an American middle class kid thrown into the mix. I’m glad I read this, as it helps me understand the characters in the series a little better, but it was pretty heavy handed with the dialog
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Fun and funny. Nice contrast to the heavy Fundamentalist Mormon books I just read.
Entertaining enough. I appreciate getting a bit more of the backstory on Astrid than happens in the movie, but really missed the pretty pictures. I'll probably read the other two as well, but I'm in no hurry with that.
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Addicting, but the movie was much better. More complex characters, better-arranged story arcs, no wooden writing. Also it’s more affecting to see the sumptuous settings that Chan describes for yourself (so to speak).
This book had to spend so much time describing visual indicators of wealth that I got kinda bored before I finished. I will watch the movie though.
Such a fun vacation read.
Apr 11, 2020
Jessica Haider
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Dec 03, 2018
Clare
marked it as to-read
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