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

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Andrea is a relatable, laugh-out-loud protagonist, a high achiever who also gives in to her weaker instincts on occasion. However, I am not suggesting that Andrea was given an artificially perfect and well-rounded personality. I would almost prefer if the book were like the CRA film which focused solely on the Chinese Singaporean characters because there was representation and diversity but at what cost?

She particularly explores the questionable job promotion criteria where performance was measured primarily based on the long billable hours. 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 felt like the book couldn’t decide whether to lean into a brittle and husband-obsessed Sophie Kinsella-esque story, or to be a critique of that style of women’s fiction. As mentioned, Andrea is such a likable character with so many interesting events taking place around her and I clearly don't want to miss that out.Her protagonist Andrea Tang is a complex woman; she's funny and self-deprecatingly awkward while also prideful and aloof. After all, we’ve survived dial-up internet, ’90 s television, and the days when shoulder pads were acceptable. However, I think there wasn't enough focus on the main love interest, he sounded very nice but a bit bland because I didn't really get to know him. closeted due to the fact she can't be fully out to her family and marries a man as a result of that. Now there would be no one else to share the burden of deflecting criticism on being single from my relatives.

Usually I hate those X meets Y-type blurbs but CRAZY RICH ASIANS meets BRIDGET JONES is pretty on the mark for LAST TANG STANDING.That said, it definitely took me roughly a quarter or even a third of the book to really sink my teeth into it; a good chunk of this novel was spent setting up a lot of characters and situations without a ton of plot (so it's around 2. If cheating is a dealbreaker for you, please be advised that Suresh is engaged for most of the book, and a secondary character has an affair with a married man. LAST TANG STANDING is a hilarious transcontinental romp filled with characters that crackle off the page. Glad I persevered as a little romance was comforting and put the protagonist in situations that were more comical and light hearted.

Lauren Ho’s irresistible Last Tang Standing sparkles with that perfect match of hilarity and heart on every page.Every book I’ve read that references Bridget Jones is full of insufferable adult children who behave like they’re 14 years old. There are a few, of course, that you just want to see stabbed in the heart, but that kept things interesting too. The combination of an appealing lead, a glamorous setting, and relatable, funny portrayals of relationships and workplace politics make this debut one of the must-read escapist pleasures of the summer. Also, her attempt to reflect the challenges in an interracial relationship and how narrow-minded people are to accept and trust one another's beliefs or culture is very much praisable. On top of those things, the author posted a passive aggressive blog post in response to this by claiming that she wanted to showcase these issues to provide an “authentic” look on life for families like this in Singapore—however, when things like that are accepted as normal even from the main character who is meant to be a vessel into this world, it makes me wonder whether that’s truthful.