Unfortunately, she is as lifeless as the rest. You might be thinking – well, they’re all rich! That’s how rich people are! They don’t have personalities! All they care about is their riches! And yes, maybe that is true to an extent (but also a huge generalization).īut what about Rachel, the outsider who is completely new to this lifestyle? She should definitely feel like a separate person in this sea of Mary Sues. Sure, we hear about what they’re wearing or how much they think their “tiny” apartments suck or how they’re jealous of someone else’s jewels, but is there anything more to them? Not really. The problem with this is we never get to really learn about everyone. It’s always a major warning sign when a book starts with a family tree, so I guess I should have been prepared. The plot is all over the place, randomly following members of this huge extended family for a sentence or paragraph, then jumping over to someone else. Everyone has the same, blase personality and motivations. Seriously, you could take someone’s inner thoughts or dialogue and switch up the names, and I wouldn’t even be able to tell. The characters are flat, undeveloped words on paper. If Only They Could Afford PersonalitiesĬrazy Rich Asians is soooo dry and boring. While it doesn’t sound like an epic, life-changing story, it should at least be a pageturner. It’s the classic fish-out-of-water tale with a unique Asian twist. I saw the movie, and I thought the book should be pretty entertaining, right? The premise, after all, is intriguing – an American woman finds herself enthralled in a world of crazy rich Singaporeans and has to come to terms with how much they all hate her.

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