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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Funny read. Snappy writing. Mainly character driven so the plot sometimes felt a little aimless.
funny
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Gets a little off the wall sometimes.
funny
informative
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I liked the book overall. It does a great job of world building from multiple perspectives. Ideally I would like it to be 50 pages shorter.
I actually enjoyed this book as much as I did the first one- it introduces some fun new characters and, as the title implies, it takes place mostly in China, instead of Singapore. I’ll stick with my assessment of this series being the Asian Gossip Girl, except with way more money.
DNF. While I loved the drama, I’ve decided the crazy rich are just a little too rich for me - I didn’t know the brands or cars they were talking about half the time!
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really like Crazy Rich Asians but this? Well there was a few stories in here amongst the excessive and tedious descriptions and designer label nonsense and rich people stuff. However trying to find the story is exhausting really... warning this might just be a rant...
I like Rachel and all her down to earth ways in the first book. In this book? She wasn’t the same person at all... in fact almost all of the characters were very different 2-3 years later. I get why Rachel might be less bothered by the luxury stuff now but I just can’t see the Rachel from the first book hanging around with Collette and going out with them every night and going off to shop in Paris for like a week with all of Collette’s silly friends. Just seemed weird not that it really matters much because Rachel and Nick are basically side characters at this point. Their wedding? Basically a side note... meeting her father? I should have known during their initial meeting when it switched fulmar the meeting to Nick and his mother then straight to the wedding without ever showing what happened... that this book was going to be full of half thought out story lines. All the stuff with her father and brother and the stepmother was just kinda boring. I did like Carlton and the relationship he formed with Rachel and I get that this whole situation would be weird for his mother. However all her dramatics about it were rather childish and she seemed very unhinged.
Astrid... that was a weird one. After what happened in the first book she should have just left Michel. Am I surprised by his complete turn around once he got money? Nope not at all nothing surprised me about him he was a sucky person with less money and a worse person with money. What surprised me was how Astrid let him treat her and their son. I don’t know how she couldn’t see that nothing she ever did would ever be enough. And after knowing how secretive her family is... that article even scandalized me. I’m like oh I can’t believe he did that! But for the most part their story wasn’t that interesting complete predictable....
Kitty and Bernard? I can’t even with that one just know they have changed and not for the better.... though I feel like all she really needed to do was tell his mother what was going on and she might have come over and nagged him into submission. Also the timeline of their relationship is suspicious because they only met at Araminta and Colin’s wedding and a week or two after that she was pregnant and they ran off to Las Vegas... is Giselle even his child? Their story was rather pointless here and her whole subplot with Corrina was even more pointless
Collette was just annoying really all her tantrums and her spoiled brat ways. You can say she’s just young and her parents put a lot of pressure and expectations on her and that’s true... she was pitiful and predictable and I think Carlton deserves better.
Carlton... I didn’t know what to make of him from the start but he actually grew on me. He was more than the spoiled brat he seemed to be he was dealing with actual trauma and the consequences of his actions but had no real way to deal with it because of his mother’s lingo weird ways.
The whole poisoning situation I feel like the person who was poisoned and nearly died didn’t really react in a normal way. Not sure how people react after something like that but brushing it off like it’s nothing ain’t it. The who and why of it I honestly didn’t see coming but that’s because it was just stupid like so stupid. I get it not making if the obvious person but this was so stupid it’s not even funny.
One weird thing I noticed in this book is that with the exception of Astrid the author seemed to completely forget that Rachel or Araminta had different last names after they got married. But made a point to add how Rachel was so proudly taking her husband’s name. Yet somehow kept calling her Rachel Chu not Young... random...
All in all while the first book was interesting and exciting and a view into lives most people could never live and can’t even fathom and was filled with a lot of family drama... this was... tedious exhausting overly descriptive with no actual plot or cohesive story just basically a bunch of random things that happened to a group of Interconnected people. Oh and so much rich people stuff. I wish this book was better I really do. Not really expecting for any improvement in the 3rd book but since I already got it from the library... I guess I will read it...
Also this series had kinda made me a snob against those over the top new money people the way Nick’s family isn’t flashy rich seems like better situation.
One last thing... what’s with the footnotes? I’ve never read a book with footnotes typically authors work the information into the actual story but obviously not this author. It’s actually very annoying if you listen to the audiobook version... where the narrator will read the footnote as soon as one comes up. The narrator for the first book didn’t do that so it was easier to ignore it. I was forced to give up on the audio after a few chapters though because the only way to actually get through this book is to skip over the descriptions and other such nonsense.
I like Rachel and all her down to earth ways in the first book. In this book? She wasn’t the same person at all... in fact almost all of the characters were very different 2-3 years later. I get why Rachel might be less bothered by the luxury stuff now but I just can’t see the Rachel from the first book hanging around with Collette and going out with them every night and going off to shop in Paris for like a week with all of Collette’s silly friends. Just seemed weird not that it really matters much because Rachel and Nick are basically side characters at this point. Their wedding? Basically a side note... meeting her father? I should have known during their initial meeting when it switched fulmar the meeting to Nick and his mother then straight to the wedding without ever showing what happened... that this book was going to be full of half thought out story lines. All the stuff with her father and brother and the stepmother was just kinda boring. I did like Carlton and the relationship he formed with Rachel and I get that this whole situation would be weird for his mother. However all her dramatics about it were rather childish and she seemed very unhinged.
Astrid... that was a weird one. After what happened in the first book she should have just left Michel. Am I surprised by his complete turn around once he got money? Nope not at all nothing surprised me about him he was a sucky person with less money and a worse person with money. What surprised me was how Astrid let him treat her and their son. I don’t know how she couldn’t see that nothing she ever did would ever be enough. And after knowing how secretive her family is... that article even scandalized me. I’m like oh I can’t believe he did that! But for the most part their story wasn’t that interesting complete predictable....
Kitty and Bernard? I can’t even with that one just know they have changed and not for the better.... though I feel like all she really needed to do was tell his mother what was going on and she might have come over and nagged him into submission. Also the timeline of their relationship is suspicious because they only met at Araminta and Colin’s wedding and a week or two after that she was pregnant and they ran off to Las Vegas... is Giselle even his child? Their story was rather pointless here and her whole subplot with Corrina was even more pointless
Collette was just annoying really all her tantrums and her spoiled brat ways. You can say she’s just young and her parents put a lot of pressure and expectations on her and that’s true... she was pitiful and predictable and I think Carlton deserves better.
Carlton... I didn’t know what to make of him from the start but he actually grew on me. He was more than the spoiled brat he seemed to be he was dealing with actual trauma and the consequences of his actions but had no real way to deal with it because of his mother’s lingo weird ways.
The whole poisoning situation I feel like the person who was poisoned and nearly died didn’t really react in a normal way. Not sure how people react after something like that but brushing it off like it’s nothing ain’t it. The who and why of it I honestly didn’t see coming but that’s because it was just stupid like so stupid. I get it not making if the obvious person but this was so stupid it’s not even funny.
One weird thing I noticed in this book is that with the exception of Astrid the author seemed to completely forget that Rachel or Araminta had different last names after they got married. But made a point to add how Rachel was so proudly taking her husband’s name. Yet somehow kept calling her Rachel Chu not Young... random...
All in all while the first book was interesting and exciting and a view into lives most people could never live and can’t even fathom and was filled with a lot of family drama... this was... tedious exhausting overly descriptive with no actual plot or cohesive story just basically a bunch of random things that happened to a group of Interconnected people. Oh and so much rich people stuff. I wish this book was better I really do. Not really expecting for any improvement in the 3rd book but since I already got it from the library... I guess I will read it...
Also this series had kinda made me a snob against those over the top new money people the way Nick’s family isn’t flashy rich seems like better situation.
One last thing... what’s with the footnotes? I’ve never read a book with footnotes typically authors work the information into the actual story but obviously not this author. It’s actually very annoying if you listen to the audiobook version... where the narrator will read the footnote as soon as one comes up. The narrator for the first book didn’t do that so it was easier to ignore it. I was forced to give up on the audio after a few chapters though because the only way to actually get through this book is to skip over the descriptions and other such nonsense.
I could do without Kitty's perspective. But otherwise, just as hilarious as the other book!
It holds up! I am so obsessed with this series! It’s just so over the top and well done. Looking forward to Rich People Problems :)
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