Crazy Rich Asians - Aryan S

    For my blog post, I chose to write about the novel Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan. I had watched the movie version of this story a few years ago, and I thought it would be a good idea to read the book that it is based on. Like other movie recreations, they both match up very well, but I would say the book is better at explaining the backstories of the characters and deepening the plot for the reader. I also read this book a few years after watching the movie, so I didn't remember some of the main points in the story. This genre is normally out of my interests, but the rollercoaster of a plot can hook anyone in.

    The book starts off with Rachel and Nick living in NYC as professors. Nick wants to take Rachel to Singapore, where he is from, to meet his family. However, one thing that he "forgot" to mention was that he was born into one of the richest families in the world. To make matters worse, Nick's mother, Eleanor Young, is very particular about who he chooses as his partner. To start the trip off, Rachel is informed there is a huge wedding about to take place, and she was invited. But what she didn't realize was that this was possibly the biggest wedding of the year between two of the most influential families in the world. She is thrown into a new world she has never experienced before. However, what she didn't know were the people trying to ruin their relationship. Right when they land in Singapore, Nick is invited to his best friend's bachelor's party, and Rachel is invited to the bride's bachelorette's party. To put it short, both of the parties ended up in disasters. 

    But while all of this is happening, Nick's cousin, Astrid, found out that her husband was cheating on her with someone else. I won't get into the nitty-gritty about this part of the story so that I won't spoil it, but the majority of the rest of the story was focused on this new development. You can imagine that Rachel is completely overwhelmed by everything that is going on, and packs her bag to leave back to New York. But right before she left, she heard a rumor about her father, who supposedly died when she was young. 

    That's where I'm going to stop with this blog post so that you can read through the book and have the great experience that I had with this book. I would give this book a 4/5 because this book is extremely interesting, but I don't really enjoy reading a book that is formatted with different chapters as the point of view of different people. It can be interesting sometimes, but other times it just takes away from the suspense at the end of a chapter. I would also like to give a warning to the reader because there are some mature topics referred to throughout the novel. Overall, though, this was a great read.