Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen -> Starting July 20th, 2020

[Alaina, Head of Monthly Challenges & Keeper of BR Threads]

When eighteen-year-old Ever Wong’s parents send her from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer, she finds herself thrust among the very over-achieving kids her parents have always wanted her to be, including Rick Woo, the Yale-bound prodigy profiled in the Chinese newspapers since they were nine—and her parents’ yardstick for her never-measuring-up life.

Unbeknownst to her parents, however, the program is actually an infamous teen meet-market nicknamed Loveboat, where the kids are more into clubbing than calligraphy and drinking snake-blood sake than touring sacred shrines.

Free for the first time, Ever sets out to break all her parents’ uber-strict rules—but how far can she go before she breaks her own heart?

[Alaina, Head of Monthly Challenges & Keeper of BR Threads]

Ch 10: (view spoiler)[wow, I can't believe how strict her parents are even though she is half way around the world. (hide spoiler)]

[Alaina, Head of Monthly Challenges & Keeper of BR Threads]

Ch 20: (view spoiler)[dang switching schools for a girlfriend? don't do it man! (hide spoiler)]

[Alaina, Head of Monthly Challenges & Keeper of BR Threads]

Ch 30: (view spoiler)[..why is she talking about love you've known them for like 10 minutes. (hide spoiler)]

[Alaina, Head of Monthly Challenges & Keeper of BR Threads]

Finished: (view spoiler)[this was kind of cute and I'm happy her dad knew that she really loved dancing and that she shouldn't give it up. (hide spoiler)]

[Attack Salmon]

13% (view spoiler)[ I am bored.....
And why is it these books always like to potray Chinese as having strict parents. (hide spoiler)]

[Attack Salmon]

18% (view spoiler)[The narrator's chinese accent is so bad that I can't even understand

And this book is boring. (hide spoiler)]

[Attack Salmon]

40%
(view spoiler)[finally something interesting happened. A love triangle

Sophie is such a drama queen (hide spoiler)]

[Attack Salmon]

57%

(view spoiler)[ Sophie oh Sophie. Whats the deal with her and Xavier?
I have a feeling Sophie spread the nude photos at qian tang (hide spoiler)]

[Attack Salmon]

Finished (view spoiler)[ Ending is nice. I was bored out of my mind for the first half but the story gets better after they all went to Aunt Clara house (hide spoiler)]

[Alaina, Head of Monthly Challenges & Keeper of BR Threads]

Attack Salmon wrote: "13% .... "

You know, I never thought about that. Yes, that seems to be a common theme but I feel like that is with a lot of parents who came to America.. ya know? That's how my grandparents were to my parents.

[Alaina, Head of Monthly Challenges & Keeper of BR Threads]

Attack Salmon wrote: "40%.."

Oh god, Sophie, I didn't like her.

[Alaina, Head of Monthly Challenges & Keeper of BR Threads]

Attack Salmon wrote: "57%..."

Yeah she did which is completely horrible.

[Alaina, Head of Monthly Challenges & Keeper of BR Threads]

Attack Salmon wrote: "Finished [spoilers removed]"

Sorry you didn't like this one! Did you read it or listen to it?

[Attack Salmon]

Alaina wrote: "Attack Salmon wrote: "Finished [spoilers removed]"

Sorry you didn't like this one! Did you read it or listen to it?"

I listen to it haha and I didnt hate it. But it took so long to get interesting I was about to DNF it 🤣🤣

[Alaina, Head of Monthly Challenges & Keeper of BR Threads]

Attack Salmon wrote: "Alaina wrote: "Attack Salmon wrote: "Finished [spoilers removed]"

Sorry you didn't like this one! Did you read it or listen to it?"

I listen to it haha and I didnt hate it. But it took so long to..."

LOL I listened to it as well but I really liked it.

[Kelly]

25% - (view spoiler)[ This book makes me feel uncomfortable... Everyone drinking and having sex with everyone on the "loveboat" doesn't sit well with me :/ Her parents seem pretty strict but I don't care about the characters yet. (hide spoiler)]

50% - (view spoiler)[The situation with Xavier/Sophie & Rick/Jenna doesn't feel right. The FMC is in the middle and cheating might happen? If so, I'm not going to like it. The fake relationship and meeting Rick's family is a bit more entertaining and I'm glad because before that it wasn't very interesting. (hide spoiler)]

58% - (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Finished - (view spoiler)[This wasn't for me. Glad you liked it though! (hide spoiler)]