![]() ![]() Part of this, I think was because Nick and Rachel get married very early on in the book, and thus the central conflict between them and Eleanor is rendered broadly irrelevent. This book immediately felt like it was coming into the scene with less of a “burn it all down” mentality. There was a fantastic nod to the long-lasting impact of colonialism, and a scathing look at the class system which valued British “old money” above Chinese mainland “new money”. The characters who had seemed over the top in the films it appeared had been watered down and sanitised for the cinema audience – the books stretched their shallowness, vanity and cruelty to almost pantomime levels, set among a backdrop of even more outlandishly lavish spending. After being swept away by the film, I was tickled and surprised by how much more biting the book was. ![]() 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.Ĭrazy Rich Asians was one of the books I reviewed in the first year of this blog and I adored it. Then a chance accident reveals his identity. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birth father, a man she never knew, won’t be there to walk her down the aisle. She has a flawless oval-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiancé willing to give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. ![]() It’s the eve of Rachel Chu’s wedding, and she should be over the moon. ![]()
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