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diaryofdifference's review against another edition
3.0
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A quick Chick-Lit, written in Singlish, an English-based patois that Singaporeans speak to each other. It was interesting and unique, and given the fact that I haven’t read anything like this before, I genuinely enjoyed the writing. This is my first book from Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan.
Our main heroine in this book is Jazzy, a 27-year-old, born and living in Singapore. In her mind, she is getting old and her time to get married is running out.
But Jazzy doesn’t want to just marry anyone, especially not the Asian boys she keeps seeing in the clubs, or the ones that are so traditional and bring her mum soup in the mornings. She wants to marry an English Man, become rich, move abroad and have his babies.
To achieve this, Jazzy and her friends make a deal to start going into clubs and places and meet their perfect English men. They become Sarong Party Girls, and from chapter to chapter we read about new adventures and troubles that Jazzy gets herself into.
This book is unique in many ways, there are a lot of immoral scenes that teach us moral lessons. There is so much culture in this book and it’s nice to see how people tolerate moral levels differently in another part of the world.
I didn’t like Jazzy, and I didn’t agree with almost anything she was doing. From chapter to chapter she kept making stupid decisions, and even though she learnt a little bit in the end, she was still clueless at so many things, which I find annoying.
As much as I loved the refreshing taste of culture this book gave me, I also didn’t enjoy the main character at all, and am struggling to give it anything more than three stars.
It is an amazing book, with quality writing that I am sure represents Singaporeans well, culture a plenty and many scenes that trigger discussions. But if you are looking for your perfect character, you won’t find this is Jazzy. You won’t find it in Sarong Party Girls.
Thank you to ReadersFirst and Allen & Unwin for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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A quick Chick-Lit, written in Singlish, an English-based patois that Singaporeans speak to each other. It was interesting and unique, and given the fact that I haven’t read anything like this before, I genuinely enjoyed the writing. This is my first book from Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan.
Our main heroine in this book is Jazzy, a 27-year-old, born and living in Singapore. In her mind, she is getting old and her time to get married is running out.
But Jazzy doesn’t want to just marry anyone, especially not the Asian boys she keeps seeing in the clubs, or the ones that are so traditional and bring her mum soup in the mornings. She wants to marry an English Man, become rich, move abroad and have his babies.
To achieve this, Jazzy and her friends make a deal to start going into clubs and places and meet their perfect English men. They become Sarong Party Girls, and from chapter to chapter we read about new adventures and troubles that Jazzy gets herself into.
This book is unique in many ways, there are a lot of immoral scenes that teach us moral lessons. There is so much culture in this book and it’s nice to see how people tolerate moral levels differently in another part of the world.
I didn’t like Jazzy, and I didn’t agree with almost anything she was doing. From chapter to chapter she kept making stupid decisions, and even though she learnt a little bit in the end, she was still clueless at so many things, which I find annoying.
As much as I loved the refreshing taste of culture this book gave me, I also didn’t enjoy the main character at all, and am struggling to give it anything more than three stars.
It is an amazing book, with quality writing that I am sure represents Singaporeans well, culture a plenty and many scenes that trigger discussions. But if you are looking for your perfect character, you won’t find this is Jazzy. You won’t find it in Sarong Party Girls.
Thank you to ReadersFirst and Allen & Unwin for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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yi_shun_lai's review against another edition
5.0
Frisky. Engaging. Darker than you might think, in a world you only think you know. Compulsive reading.
tracyx11's review against another edition
3.0
DNF after a few chapters. Still giving it 3 stars only because I didn't think it was terrible, but I don't think I want to waste time reading a book I most likely won't like. I just didn't think that, even with character development, I would like the characters. And understandably, I probably wasn't meant to like them ?
limxt10's review against another edition
4.0
Quite interesting, although I read local fiction before, this is the first time that I read a novel entirely in Singlish. Quite shiok seh. Highly recommend to those ah bengs and lians ( inner or outer) who dun care whether they are atas or not. It is like we can afford to drink starbucks or eat at high class restaurant but hawker centre, kopitiam is where I belong. (Chey, I still can't afford to eat at high class restaurant lah) This book is good reflection of how some pple want the 'outside' world but should instead treasure and appreciate what they already have.
bookphenomena_micky's review against another edition
2.0
I'm going to be rather brief in my review on this one because it was a struggle to be engaged or stay engaged with this read. SARONG PARTY GIRLS feels initally like a light read with vapid characters, I could see quite quickly that that most of the characters were deeper than first glance but I struggled nonetheless to make connections with them.
Singapore life for the rich and entitled was like many that of the young and rich in other cities but with a different cultural landscape. These women were aiming to secure a white, western man but all did not go to plan. The tale completely immerses the reader from the first page in Singlish - a patois of the region which although was comprehensible, it was difficult to get lost in the words or story because I was constantly trying to make meaning and connections between words.
Overall, this read wasn't for me.
Thank you to Allen & Unwin for the review copy.
Singapore life for the rich and entitled was like many that of the young and rich in other cities but with a different cultural landscape. These women were aiming to secure a white, western man but all did not go to plan. The tale completely immerses the reader from the first page in Singlish - a patois of the region which although was comprehensible, it was difficult to get lost in the words or story because I was constantly trying to make meaning and connections between words.
Overall, this read wasn't for me.
Thank you to Allen & Unwin for the review copy.
herwitchiness's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 rounded up to 4/5 stars. I really only finished this because the characters and life is so different from my own that I was intrigued but it did get rather boring. That might be because I’ve been marathoning YA fantasy, though & I didn’t hate it- I liked it well enough, I just need more in a romcom. It was nice to get used to the dialect and accent enough that I can finally say it’s an easy accent for me to understand whereas before due to auditory processing issues I could not.
gouthamisg's review against another edition
3.0
I gave this book three stars mostly because of its ending. I thought the author did a good of describing the details of she calls the SPG life, both the why and the how of it all. However, the ending ended so suddenly, so out of the blue, I almost had mental whiplash. The book ended at a point that I thought should have been the middle of the book. I would have loved to see more character development from the main character, Jazzy. I will say that the characters are written convincingly and the locations and general descriptions are also well written.
diaryofdifference's review against another edition
3.0
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A quick Chick-Lit, written in Singlish, an English-based patois that Singaporeans speak to each other. It was interesting and unique, and given the fact that I haven’t read anything like this before, I genuinely enjoyed the writing. This is my first book from Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan.
Our main heroine in this book is Jazzy, a 27-year-old, born and living in Singapore. In her mind, she is getting old and her time to get married is running out.
But Jazzy doesn’t want to just marry anyone, especially not the Asian boys she keeps seeing in the clubs, or the ones that are so traditional and bring her mum soup in the mornings. She wants to marry an English Man, become rich, move abroad and have his babies.
To achieve this, Jazzy and her friends make a deal to start going into clubs and places and meet their perfect English men. They become Sarong Party Girls, and from chapter to chapter we read about new adventures and troubles that Jazzy gets herself into.
This book is unique in many ways, there are a lot of immoral scenes that teach us moral lessons. There is so much culture in this book and it’s nice to see how people tolerate moral levels differently in another part of the world.
I didn’t like Jazzy, and I didn’t agree with almost anything she was doing. From chapter to chapter she kept making stupid decisions, and even though she learnt a little bit in the end, she was still clueless at so many things, which I find annoying.
As much as I loved the refreshing taste of culture this book gave me, I also didn’t enjoy the main character at all, and am struggling to give it anything more than three stars.
It is an amazing book, with quality writing that I am sure represents Singaporeans well, culture a plenty and many scenes that trigger discussions. But if you are looking for your perfect character, you won’t find this is Jazzy. You won’t find it in Sarong Party Girls.
Thank you to ReadersFirst and Allen & Unwin for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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A quick Chick-Lit, written in Singlish, an English-based patois that Singaporeans speak to each other. It was interesting and unique, and given the fact that I haven’t read anything like this before, I genuinely enjoyed the writing. This is my first book from Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan.
Our main heroine in this book is Jazzy, a 27-year-old, born and living in Singapore. In her mind, she is getting old and her time to get married is running out.
But Jazzy doesn’t want to just marry anyone, especially not the Asian boys she keeps seeing in the clubs, or the ones that are so traditional and bring her mum soup in the mornings. She wants to marry an English Man, become rich, move abroad and have his babies.
To achieve this, Jazzy and her friends make a deal to start going into clubs and places and meet their perfect English men. They become Sarong Party Girls, and from chapter to chapter we read about new adventures and troubles that Jazzy gets herself into.
This book is unique in many ways, there are a lot of immoral scenes that teach us moral lessons. There is so much culture in this book and it’s nice to see how people tolerate moral levels differently in another part of the world.
I didn’t like Jazzy, and I didn’t agree with almost anything she was doing. From chapter to chapter she kept making stupid decisions, and even though she learnt a little bit in the end, she was still clueless at so many things, which I find annoying.
As much as I loved the refreshing taste of culture this book gave me, I also didn’t enjoy the main character at all, and am struggling to give it anything more than three stars.
It is an amazing book, with quality writing that I am sure represents Singaporeans well, culture a plenty and many scenes that trigger discussions. But if you are looking for your perfect character, you won’t find this is Jazzy. You won’t find it in Sarong Party Girls.
Thank you to ReadersFirst and Allen & Unwin for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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mizzpearl16's review against another edition
4.0
Laugh out loud hilarious with so many colorful characters. The Singaporean accent takes a while to get use to though
bookishideas's review against another edition
2.0
3.5/5* "Sarong Party Girls" is a fun and witty novel about the life of Jazzy and her friends on a quest of finding an "ang moh" (very wealthy Western) husband. The whole book is written in Singlish which is a form of English spoken in Singapore. I admit that initially, it was a little difficult to get used to it as it's a little bit like broken English (in some cases only) but after a while, I stopped paying too much attention to it and enjoyed the book as normal. Jazzy paints a humorous view of Singapore even when she's pointing out the misogyny, sexism and discrimination that is present. Women don't have it easy in the sense that they're not always treated seriously and therefore they often make themselves look a certain way to appeal to men in order for them to find a (rich) husband. Since Jazzy is in her late twenties, she's beginning to panic that she's reached her 'expiration date' and that if she doesn't hurry, she won't find a rich Western husband that she hopes to marry. It was a good read and while it's not fully my cup of tea, I enjoyed the humor as well as the insight into the life and culture of Singapore. I'd say this could be a great beach or summertime read!