Last Tang Standing: The most hilarious, feel-good debut romcom you’ll read all year!

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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. While it is also amusing to see Lauren discovers the issue of social status and class differences, she also explores a wider concept, i. May 3, 2020: I'm so ready to be taken into all the Singaporean wealth and shine through this book since it's compared to Crazy Rich Asians and of course I want to read a Southeast Asian character. i wish i'd had last tang standing to read when i was younger, alongside the meg cabots and sophie kinsellas (whose hilarious rom-com lit i undoubtedly enjoyed, but never felt like i could relate to). There are many books about Asian protagonists who are women and scrambling to find an impressive guy for their family with high standards.

In addition, under the dictatorship of the late Ferdinand Marcos, political dissenters were brutally tortured, raped, and killed. Lauren Ho’s incisive, sharp voice lays bare one of the central questions in many professional women’s lives – is everything we give up to live a “good life” worth it?Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the pursuit of happiness, surviving one’s thirties intact, and opening oneself up to love. However, I am not suggesting that Andrea was given an artificially perfect and well-rounded personality. Most of this is meandering situations where the MC finds herself in "quirky" situations where she judges the people around her. I loved the way the author shows how society, culture and family can influence in every decision you make, how Andrea struggles so much with herself and everything she had been taught just to be herself and doing what she thought was right.

I loved a glimpse into similar struggles with dating but in a unique setting and cultural background that I know very little about. Lauren Ho’s fresh voice brings humour and heart to the glittering, fast-paced landscape of Singapore.For fans of Crazy Rich Asians and Bridget Jones's Diary comes a hilarious story of love, friendship and the most intrusive people in the world: family. I do agree with the nay-sayers that the book went on for a bit too long but I loved the love interest (he was the BEST) and the journey actually caused me some hardcore nerves as the will they/won't they vibes increased, so even though the execution was a little shaky, I still ended up liking this a lot. In hindsight, I should have listened to the alarm bells that went off at the paedophile joke in chapter one. There was also a short but impactful heartbreaking scene where I let out a gesture of sympathy to that particular character: "aiyo.

Linda’s paternal family tree was an off-brand Marcos (or so it was rumored); the family had substantial interests in several mining and timber companies, with land to burn in Borneo. Laura Jane Williams, bestselling author of Our Stop 'Both joyfully entertaining and socially perceptive, Lauren Ho's debut is a vivid read on dating, work and family in Singapore through the lens of a brutally honest protagonist of gold.

Bought this after reading rave reviews by bookstagrammers and they were not lying: a laugh-out-loud rom-com from start to finish. Andrea Tang comes from an upcoming and upscale family who were born and raised in Malaysia but later on studied abroad and eventually settles in Singapore to be a very successful lawyer. I appreciated that Eric and Suresh both felt like viable options, but Andrea seemed to feel so strongly for both that I couldn’t see this ending well. She falls for Eric, meets his kid (who loves her), he asks her to marry him, she’s planning the wedding, and she still hasn’t figured out that she prefers Suresh.