China Rich Girlfriend

DNF at PAGE TWO HUNDRED TWENTY NINE. That's how much I wanted to love this book. I am so disappointed. I really enjoyed Crazy Rich Asians, and was so excited to get this one.

I feel like this book passes little resemblance to its predecessor. Rachel and Nick have suddenly become the flattest characters ever, several of the previous book's characters have had total personality transplants, and the fun of the gaudy houses and over-the-top jewelry is now multiple pages describing every single detail of every single room in the gigantic homes of a slew of new characters that aren't interesting enough or fleshed out enough to care about.

There were too many storylines, and none of them were so compelling that I wanted more (EXCEPT ONE - the transformation of Kitty Pong, because Corinna telling her what to do was awesome, and there wasn't enough of that - it took SO long to get there and then there were SO many other chapters in between each of Kitty's), and like, I don't care what happened to Kitty's douchebag of a husband, and I don't believe for a second that Rachel and Nick would have been cool with what his mother did the day before their wedding, and all that stuff about Rachel's birth father in China was a) not mysterious enough to be fun, and b) not serious enough or over-the-top enough to get away with being as big a storyline as it was.

A big ol' pfffffft to this book. Sigh.