Book Review: Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3) by Kevin Kwan

Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Rich People Problems...aka just put my whole entire family in this whole entire book because good lord they act just like the family in this book. Anyway, getting off track, now to the book review...so Rich People Problems is about the Shang-Young family coming together after the death of their patriarch, Shang Su Yi, aka Ah Ma. It was a sad moment...truely, it was...

Actually, no it wasn't. Because honestly, the way Eddie Cheng fussed and fought and screamed and hollered over a frickin' house reminded me so much of my own uncle (who's like Eddie Cheng 2.0). He thinks he's hot shit, he thinks he can do whatever he wants when he wants, and he also thinks that he was going to get the house. WRONG. (No, seriously, he thought he was going to get Tyersall Park). Then they thought that Su Yi wanted to sell the house, and they started getting these offers, but the Nick, the brightest man in this WHOLE ENTIRE BOOK, decided to make a deal with his aunties that he can raise the money to buy the house. It didn't work, so after finding somethings out with his Ah Ma, he went to Thailand to meet with a prince, and he found something about his Ah Ma that changed everything, thus turning Tyersall Park into Tyersall Park Hotel and museum, thanks to a mysterious backer.

And that mysterious backer is...

Kitty Pong Bing. Yes, that Kitty Pong, who in the last two books did so much crazy shit, but she got away from Benard Tai and married Jack Bing, who is the father of Colette Bing, who tried to poison Rachel. Following along? Good, because it's about to get even crazier from here. In this book, Kitty has an arch nemesis...which is Colette Bing, the new Countess of Parsilver or some fancy title like that, and Kitty HATES her. She wants to do everything better than Colette (gee, who does that sound like? An auntie of mine) and tries every crazy thing she can think of. But at the end, she decided to secretly buy in Tysersall Park and turn it into a museum.

The Astrid storyline I enjoyed the most-mostly because it's like she's finally getting everything she ever wanted and then everything came crashing down the moment that sex tape of her and Charlie came out thanks to Charlie's ex-wife, Isabel, having a psychotic breakdown and nearly killing herself. Then Astrid disappeared, making Charlie worry about her and he started to search everywhere for her, asking around and all. Then he went to Palawan where he and Astrid reunited, and I HOPE TO GOD THAT THEY GET MARRIED BECAUSE I LOVE THEM TOGETHER AND I WANT THEM TO GET MARRIED OKAY.

All in all this was a really good book and I enjoyed myself so much. I'm sad that I'm going to be missing my family because I feel like a part of me is with this family now. I'm going to miss every crazy thing they have every done to each other. But one day I shall revisit them. So for now I'm going to say goodbye and that I shall see you soon.

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Book Review: China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians #2) by Kevin Kwan

China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book took me completely by surprise.

First, Rachel and Nick are engaged and is about to be married. Everyone that Nick and Rachel knows are invited-well all accept Eleanor Young, who didn't like Rachael in the first book. They did get married in California, but then the wedding was slipped, and Eleanor showed up-but not because she wanted Nick's forgiveness.

Eleanor found out about Rachel's real dad, Bao Gaoliao, though his son, Carlton Bao, that looks exactly like Rachel. Once Rachel found out her dad was real (and no, not an alien), she and Nick was whisked away to Shanghai, China, to meet Rachel's rich side of the family. Of course, Bao Shayoen, Carlton's mother, didn't want her husband to meet Rachel, thinking that Rachel will destroy pretty much everything she'd worked on, even though in the beginning of the book Carlton got into a car accident and someone died in it.

Of course Bao Shayao told her husband never to see or speak to Rachel ever again, even told her own son this. But then Carlton met Rachel and Nick, and found out that Rachel is the most sweetest girl ever. This book also introduced Colette Bing, a spoiled little rich girl who thought she can get away with poisoning Rachel, though her guard took the blunt of it. Even at the end, when Colette tried to manipulate Rachel into talking to Carlton, only to get her rich ass chewed out calmly and left...woof that was good.

The other thing was the Teos and how Michael was acting all rich and shit because he got money and is acting like a big shot. Astrid was legit worried about him, and even told her woes to her friend Charlie Wu, who I wanted her to be with, but at the end she left him. She didn't like how Michael was acting, even acting like a brat because she decided to leave with the maid and her son, Cassian. Michael even thought that she was fucking Charlie Wu because of all the emails and text messages they were doing, which wasn't right for him to pry into and get drunk over it.

The last and final thing was Kitty Pong/Kitty Tai and Shanghai's answer to Spencer Pratt, Bernard Tai. Basically Kitty was staying in Shanghai/Hong Kong and staying away from her crazy husband, who was pretty much treating their daughter and their whole lives like crap. He even moved them somewhere in LA, and life there sucks. She even brought a famous painting called The Palace of Eightteen Perfections and hired Corrine, whom I really didn't like. But as the novel went on, I saw why Kitty was never in LA with her family, because life there sucks so many balls. So she devised a plan to "kidnap" her daughter and took her to Singapore, where she's having the time of her life there and raising her daughter right, instead of the way Bernard wanted to raise her.

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Book Review: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Crazy Rich Asians...what a book. It has everything in it-the soapy-filled drama of a soap, Gossip Girl and nosey, nagging mothers (at least, at my end)-and honestly? I enjoyed myself. I actually started wishing I was rich...without my curse of hating nosey mothers in almost every book I read (no, actually, I hate meddling mothers who don't want their children to be happy with the one they love). But the one part of Crazy Rich Asians I loved so much was (okay, yes it was the parties and the fashion and everything else) but it was Astrid's storyline.

Astrid Leong was married to a man (who I hate with a burning passion and wish he can die somewhere) named Michael Teo. They have a son named Cassian, and it seemed like a picture-perfect life. But it all came crashing down when Astrid realized that Michael has been seeing another woman behind her back (or so she thought), and cornered him about it, demanding him to tell her the truth (well, actually, she picked up his phone and saw the text message MISS U NSIDE ME, and thus, there was me screaming for her to go to Maury, or dig around and be a snoop) and it turns out, dammit, that Michael lied to her. He went to Hong Kong to see his sister and decided to fake everything so he and Astrid can get a divorce. That's why he made up everything for her to find. I hope to God in the next book that actually happens and Astrid can move on with Charlie Wu (the one I really want her to be with).

I also like the Nick/Colin Khoo storyline too, because the way they got away from Shanghai's answer to Spencer Pratt Benard Tai (with friends Mehmet, Alistair, and Lionel) was too funny and sneaky, and also I love their friendship. I was also glad that Colin and Araminta were worried for Rachel and actually treated her like family when she first came to Shanghai. Honestly, I love this friendship altogether.

The funniest one I liked has to be Oliver T'sien and Peik Lin. I LOVE them so much, especially Oliver's witty comments and I really, really love Peik Lin because she's a really good friend to Rachel.

What I didn't care about: the mom, Eleanor. I have this curse where if the fictional mother does something I don't like, I don't care about. I mean, she plotted to get rid of Rachel, even looking up to see who her birth father was. Then before Rachel went to see her father, Nick flew in her mother to explain everything to her and how she was another man's child and not the man who's in jail (thank god-and also the mom I liked in this book), thus stopping Eleanor to get rid of Rachel so she can set him up with someone else (ha ha).

So what's next? I don't know, but I gotta wait till I get my hands on China Rich Girlfriend (which is coming soon since I ordered it).

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