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nedjemet 's review for:
Crazy Rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan
I prefer the movie. Note, I didn’t say that the movie way better. I only said I prefer it. Both pieces of media will appeal to people. Both are entertaining. The deciding factor in which one you’ll like more is this: do you like soap operas?
Crazy Rich Asians (the book series) is an over-the-top drama abound with manipulative ex’s, backstabbing frenemis, handsome men, beautiful women, and a whole lot of crazy rich people of multiple ethnicities. Each book gets more and more over-the-top in its drama building to an ultimate dramatic-but-satisfying crescendo. If that sounds like a good time to you, then give this one a look. Even though this isn’t my cup of tea, I enjoyed it for what it was. I also appreciated that is largely avoided the chick-lit clichés that I loathe. There’s no cheating. There’s no stupid love triangle. It’s just drama-filled fun on the grandest scale.
The reason I didn’t love this is that I’m very picky when it comes to chick-lit. I don’t like it when there’s several plots going on, each with its own drama. I prefer the more Disney-style romances where everything is focused on the main couple and the drama is kept to a realistic minimum. Crazy Rich Asians is in the first category. There were so many characters in this thing that it could get overwhelming. That only got truer as the series went on. Each book introduced at least two new plots along with a dozen or more characters.
Luckily, there’s only a small sub-set of important characters. For the most part, you can focus on remembering their names and stories while letting everyone else serve as window dressing. For example, Elenore Young (the leading-man’s mother) runs around with a group of middle-aged women. Instead of keeping track of all their names, backstories, and kids, I just grouped them together in my head. I didn’t remember that Daisy had these kids and Carol has that kid. I remembered that these three kids were related to Elenore’s clique. I’d suggest doing the same if you read this unless you have an exquisite memory.
Of the three books, Crazy Rich Asians is probably my favorite since it feels the least over-the-top in drama. The other books are just as good, it just started to seem ridiculous that this much drama could happen to such a small group of people.
Crazy Rich Asians (the book series) is an over-the-top drama abound with manipulative ex’s, backstabbing frenemis, handsome men, beautiful women, and a whole lot of crazy rich people of multiple ethnicities. Each book gets more and more over-the-top in its drama building to an ultimate dramatic-but-satisfying crescendo. If that sounds like a good time to you, then give this one a look. Even though this isn’t my cup of tea, I enjoyed it for what it was. I also appreciated that is largely avoided the chick-lit clichés that I loathe. There’s no cheating. There’s no stupid love triangle. It’s just drama-filled fun on the grandest scale.
The reason I didn’t love this is that I’m very picky when it comes to chick-lit. I don’t like it when there’s several plots going on, each with its own drama. I prefer the more Disney-style romances where everything is focused on the main couple and the drama is kept to a realistic minimum. Crazy Rich Asians is in the first category. There were so many characters in this thing that it could get overwhelming. That only got truer as the series went on. Each book introduced at least two new plots along with a dozen or more characters.
Luckily, there’s only a small sub-set of important characters. For the most part, you can focus on remembering their names and stories while letting everyone else serve as window dressing. For example, Elenore Young (the leading-man’s mother) runs around with a group of middle-aged women. Instead of keeping track of all their names, backstories, and kids, I just grouped them together in my head. I didn’t remember that Daisy had these kids and Carol has that kid. I remembered that these three kids were related to Elenore’s clique. I’d suggest doing the same if you read this unless you have an exquisite memory.
Of the three books, Crazy Rich Asians is probably my favorite since it feels the least over-the-top in drama. The other books are just as good, it just started to seem ridiculous that this much drama could happen to such a small group of people.