Zoey Gong

It is an established fact that I have little patience or affinity for the genres termed "chick-lit" or romance. However, every now and then a novel comes along that is actually enjoyable, entertaining, and can entice even I - a jaded reader who has little patience inane authors or badly written prose - to read more than a handful of pages.

This, my friend, is such a novel.

It does of course hit all the genre staples, but it is written in lively and engaging prose. It understands its characters, their situations, and fleshes them out with alacrity, including the familial emotional ones/states. The dynamic tension between characters (all except for a scene in the middle of the book) is deftly and expertly done. (that scene can be excused, no one is perfect)

The handling of the different locales, and how the characters move within those environments, is also very well done. Ms. Gong is either writing from experience, or has truly done her homework.

Overall this is a light, entertaining, humorous (in the right places), and yes.. satisfying read.
4 stars.

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