It's not often I abandon a book, but after a week of reading and only 50 pages in I admitted defeat.
This book is set in Singapore and follows Jaseline and her friends in their hunt for a white husband.
Jaseline, the narrator has absolutely no redeeming features - she is shallow, racist, hateful and generally really irritating.
We are unfortunately stuck in her view point as she trundles around nightclubs, criticising everyone who gets in her way of hooking a white guy. Even her friends aren't safe. One of them she claims is very unattractive, and does the best she can as well as abandoning her best friend because she married a Chinese guy.
I couldn't care less whether Jazzy got her white guy or whether she had an epiphany and realised her shallow ways did no one any favours.
The only redeeming feature of this book was that it was written in Singlish - Singaporean English which is fascinating to me. But sadly it wasn't fascinating enough to read past page 50.
This book is set in Singapore and follows Jaseline and her friends in their hunt for a white husband.
Jaseline, the narrator has absolutely no redeeming features - she is shallow, racist, hateful and generally really irritating.
We are unfortunately stuck in her view point as she trundles around nightclubs, criticising everyone who gets in her way of hooking a white guy. Even her friends aren't safe. One of them she claims is very unattractive, and does the best she can as well as abandoning her best friend because she married a Chinese guy.
I couldn't care less whether Jazzy got her white guy or whether she had an epiphany and realised her shallow ways did no one any favours.
The only redeeming feature of this book was that it was written in Singlish - Singaporean English which is fascinating to me. But sadly it wasn't fascinating enough to read past page 50.