China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of the international sensation Crazy Rich Asians delivers a "snarky ... wicked ... funny" follow-up (The New York Times) that's a deliciously fun romantic comedy of family, fortune, and fame in Mainland China.
It's the eve of Rachel Chu's wedding, and she should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiancé willing to thwart his meddling relatives and give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birth father, a man she never knew, won't be there to walk her down the aisle. Then a chance accident reveals his identity. Suddenly, Rachel is drawn into a dizzying world of Shanghai splendor, a world where people attend church in a penthouse, where exotic cars race down the boulevard, and where people aren't just crazy rich ... they're China rich.
It's the eve of Rachel Chu's wedding, and she should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiancé willing to thwart his meddling relatives and give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birth father, a man she never knew, won't be there to walk her down the aisle. Then a chance accident reveals his identity. Suddenly, Rachel is drawn into a dizzying world of Shanghai splendor, a world where people attend church in a penthouse, where exotic cars race down the boulevard, and where people aren't just crazy rich ... they're China rich.
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Just when you thought things couldn't get any crazier than the first one!
Plus, finally, my reading drought is over!
Just for my own remembrances, I read a fair amount over spring break in March when I went to Europe as part of a school trip (Spain and Italy... amazing). Lots of time on a plane can really help your TBR pile. Since then, though, I can't seem to finish a book. I've got plenty checked out from the library (I should probably renew those), I had a few audiobooks on loan, and even an ebook or two but I just couldn't seem to find the time or the inclination to read. Okay, mostly, I wanted desperately to read, but I couldn't get the time to.
I teach an AP class. If you also teach an AP class, you'll understand why I didn't read practically at all from after spring break to essentially now. I have been drowning in grading and lesson prep. Everything hit at once. I've barely been able to breathe.
So finally, one night, I was tired of it and decided to splurge on a fun book. I loved Crazy Rich Asians and had tried checking out China Rich Girlfriend from the library but these books take me too long to get into (you just have to find your rhythm) for me to check them out from the library. So I splurged and bought it.
And I am so glad I did! I snuck this book into my schedule. Literally, a half hour here while I ate breakfast, a half hour there before bed while I played with my pet rats (Olive and Sunny)... It has made these past two weeks more bearable.
In addition, what is this plot! Holy moly! I liked how we got to see a whole different cast of characters. He started the book off with Eleanor Young so that we had someone familiar to grasp onto, but then shifted it so that essentially the whole book focused on an entirely new set of people, with some of our old favorites thrown in. I don't think I would have stuck through the book, for example, if Astrid hadn't been heavily in there. I adore her. And obviously, Nick and Rachel are central to the book. He also threw in nice references to characters from the first book, so we wouldn't feel like we were totally disconnected (Araminta, Colin, Mehmet, Goh Pek Lin, etc.). Also, side note, Google doesn't have a problem with the name "Mehmet" but does with "Goh Pek Lin" and "Araminta". I don't know how to feel about this.
Anyhow, this book was delicious. It's a fun read, brain candy at its best. It doesn't feel like it's dumbing down anything (if anything, I'm learning, if mostly about brands and Cantonese slang), but it feels juicy and frivolous and indulgent, like a pineapple tart. I loved it. Would I recommend it to everyone? No. Will I pass it along to my mother in law? Yes. Ugh, can't wait for #3!
Plus, finally, my reading drought is over!
Just for my own remembrances, I read a fair amount over spring break in March when I went to Europe as part of a school trip (Spain and Italy... amazing). Lots of time on a plane can really help your TBR pile. Since then, though, I can't seem to finish a book. I've got plenty checked out from the library (I should probably renew those), I had a few audiobooks on loan, and even an ebook or two but I just couldn't seem to find the time or the inclination to read. Okay, mostly, I wanted desperately to read, but I couldn't get the time to.
I teach an AP class. If you also teach an AP class, you'll understand why I didn't read practically at all from after spring break to essentially now. I have been drowning in grading and lesson prep. Everything hit at once. I've barely been able to breathe.
So finally, one night, I was tired of it and decided to splurge on a fun book. I loved Crazy Rich Asians and had tried checking out China Rich Girlfriend from the library but these books take me too long to get into (you just have to find your rhythm) for me to check them out from the library. So I splurged and bought it.
And I am so glad I did! I snuck this book into my schedule. Literally, a half hour here while I ate breakfast, a half hour there before bed while I played with my pet rats (Olive and Sunny)... It has made these past two weeks more bearable.
In addition, what is this plot! Holy moly! I liked how we got to see a whole different cast of characters. He started the book off with Eleanor Young so that we had someone familiar to grasp onto, but then shifted it so that essentially the whole book focused on an entirely new set of people, with some of our old favorites thrown in. I don't think I would have stuck through the book, for example, if Astrid hadn't been heavily in there. I adore her. And obviously, Nick and Rachel are central to the book. He also threw in nice references to characters from the first book, so we wouldn't feel like we were totally disconnected (Araminta, Colin, Mehmet, Goh Pek Lin, etc.). Also, side note, Google doesn't have a problem with the name "Mehmet" but does with "Goh Pek Lin" and "Araminta". I don't know how to feel about this.
Anyhow, this book was delicious. It's a fun read, brain candy at its best. It doesn't feel like it's dumbing down anything (if anything, I'm learning, if mostly about brands and Cantonese slang), but it feels juicy and frivolous and indulgent, like a pineapple tart. I loved it. Would I recommend it to everyone? No. Will I pass it along to my mother in law? Yes. Ugh, can't wait for #3!
Completely over the top. We follow Rachel and Nick as the are married (after his mother lands a helicopter in the wedding location)
This leads to finding Rachel’s birth father and a whole new set of adventures in Shanghai.
This leads to finding Rachel’s birth father and a whole new set of adventures in Shanghai.
I had no idea that Crazy Rich Asians was the first of a trilogy. New characters introduced, which filled-in Rachel’s side of the family. And guess what? … she’s rich, too, by way of her long-lost father. So it’s all pretty preposterous and unreal. A bit over the top for some of the characters’ pursuit of status. Written around ten years ago, reading it today doesn’t exactly engender warm and fuzzy feelings for the characters, in today’s world of Chinese power, pandemic, Russian allegiance, and desire for world domination. Scary people, an unintended allegory, in present times. But the primary characters of Rachel and Nick continue to be sane and likable, if their families are not.
I'm just so in love with this series! This was truly something, though sometimes it did get a little heavy on the exposition. But it works
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