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I read the first CRA book after reading your last post about it, and I very much agree that Kevin Kwan is not a good writer, lol. I decided this when Astrid first becomes convinced her husband is having an affair, and she imagined the dinner they must have shared, starting with an expensive bottle of burgundy and ending with a decadent dark chocolate dessert, and I was like...this character does not care about food this much! Not to the point she'd be thinking about this instead of what they're doing to each other's BODIES.

(Another complaint: any high-end jeweler of any salt would know better than to ask a woman about the piece of jewelry her husband bought WITHOUT HER.)

I also found it tiresome that 40% of the words in the book were brand names. I think it's the best example of a book better suited to be a movie than a book, since so much of it is about appearances and impact. But while I enjoy rags-to-riches stories and shameless materialism, I do not enjoy that form of conspicuous consumption that clearly makes none of these people happy.