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Kevin Kwan: Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians #1) (2013, Doubleday) 3 stars

Crazy Rich Asians is a satirical 2013 romantic comedy novel by Kevin Kwan. Kwan stated …

Review of 'Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians #1)' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Interesting but not nearly as funny as the blurb and the hype make it out to be. The most interesting part for me was the amount of money these people have. Mere millionaires are slumming it to them and the luxury designer names that were dropped were things I had mostly never even heard of. And there's a lot of name dropping. At least 3-4 instances per page. It got to the point when I just skipped over the name-dropping because the only designers that I actually knew were, again, slumming it to these people. The Chinese/Cantonese slang words that were peppered through out the text were also annoying because they were defined in endnotes, when really, a better writer would have just let us use context clues to figure it out. Also, it just kind of ended. After all the plot leading up to the Big Reveal, what came after was just, meh. I didn't dislike this but I'm not sure I'd read another book by this author.