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Rent a Boyfriend

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Omg now you're gonna make me cry ;_; Okay sorry in advance, but....I'm about to leave another wall of text because I have to speak my mind! It's REALLY long so be prepared >.<

The lead girl was so goddamn stupid and immature at times that it drove me crazy. I felt like she was channeling the spirit of an 8 year old girl, not someone in university. Content warnings: sexism, misogyny, classism, fatphobia, arranged marriage, manipulation, disowning, homophobia, a few references to the HP series When Chloe rents Drew, the mission is simple: convince her parents fake Drew is worthy of their approval so they’ll stop pressuring her to accept a proposal from Hongbo, the wealthiest (and slimiest) young bachelor in their tight-knit Asian American community.

Oh man, I feel like this book doubled as a cultural studies class. I was SO PISSED at the Mom, and was talking to my co-worker and friend about how: SHE SHOULD JUST LET HER BE HAPPY. WHY CAN’T SHE JUST SUPPORT HER!? And my sweet friend was like: that’s not reality. 😆🤦🏻‍♀️ So, I learned some lessons in this book. In 2005’s ‘The Wedding Date’, Debra Messing hires a male escort to accompany to her sister’s wedding.

Me explico: nuestra protagonista, Chloe, es una joven de familia asiática pero criada en América, y como tal, se ve sometida a muchas expectativas que no puede ni quiere cumplir. Pero, para hacer felices a sus padres y que no la obliguen a casarse con un tipo despreciable solo porque es de buena familia, contrata al perfecto novio asiático por internet: Drew. Drew was such a sweet guy, I really liked him. Seeing him put up the Christmas tree was just the sweetest thing ever, and also the easiest way to my own heart. I believe that Chloe and Drew had good chemistry and I enjoyed their conversations so much. I received both physical and electronic ARCs from Simon and Schuster via Hear Our Voices Book Tours.There was too much unnecessary drama. The conflict was drawn out. It got really repetitive. I should have known when they kissed by like 30% that the remaining 70 was going to be a trial and a test for me. Rent A Gent is a trusted marketplace of handsome, smart, and talented men on demand. Available for rent by the hour for dates and parties. The men are selected by women with women’s priorities in mind. Our customers are smart, busy and awesome. Women’s roles are changing, and Rent A Gent is the product of our changing world. We can now enjoy the lifestyle that has been enjoyed by men for centuries. This is a guilt-free pleasure. It’s fun and it’s empowering. Chloe's family lives in Palo Alto, California. She goes to school in Chicago. The book's main focus is on the different holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chinese New Year...). Drew is incredibly sweet. I love him from the beginning while Chloe fails to treat him well. We see both of them working through their own issues—Chloe’s identities and Drew’s dreams—before they can finally come together with a believable future. And I love how much potential their future holds. Though almost every other character is not very nice, minor characters such as Drew’s roommate Jason, also a Rent for Your ’Rents operator, and his boyfriend Marshall are truly what friends are for. However, this must be my junior-year Twentieth Century History & Politics class because...Things Fall Apart. (We read Things Fall Apart in that class. Everyone who took it is probably laughing hysterically right now. Stop, you guys, think of my ego.)

I enjoyed the idea of this book. The beginning was maybe a bit slow for me. But overall it was cute. The ending was super strong. The last 10% was my favorite. over. and over again. and at first, i was really enjoying the discussion of arranged marriages and her parents' roles in that, but after a while, i could NOT care less.I did not like American Panda, this author’s other book, due to the fact that I thought it was Snooze City, the capital of Snooze Country, but this one was immediately fun to me. That voice! The dialogue! The jokes and puns and cultural allusions! Is there someone at work annoying you? Have your “rented” boyfriend show up to visit you at work to let all the guys in the office know you are in a relationship. Chloe Jing-Jing Wang (19, Taiwanese American) is an economics major at UChicago, much to her parents’ dismay. That and the fact that she doesn’t make an effort in dating. When the seemingly eligible bachelor neighbor Hongbo Kuo (25) suddenly proposes to her, Chloe’s parents jump at the chance to marry her off, for fear she might not get a better husband. But Chloe doesn’t plan on sitting around as life happen to her. For Thanksgiving, she hires fake boyfriend Andrew (real name: Drew Chan, 21, Taiwanese American) from Rent for Your ’Rents to convince her parents that a) she does date, and b) her boyfriend Andrew is perfect—son of surgeons and on his way to med school. While everything in Chloe’s life suddenly becomes an ever-growing lie, her and Drew’s feelings for each other is everything but fake. The reasons for this are fairly standard and shouldn’t require any translation for their single North American counterparts.

Goshhhh I really really hope you guys have more things planned, I have major respect for writers like yourselves with the talent you have to not only make an interesting story that I can't stop obsessively reading, but also a story that's just done SO well in terms of form and skill. So kudos to the writers and editors for putting a concise narrative together! Major respect for the artists as well as I really enjoyed the character art and the user interface's unique aesthetic. For the music, I thought the music was super cute and fit the theme of the game perfectly. Wasn't distracting and perfectly complementary for the game. Last but not least, shutout to the coders as well for making this all possible and their efforts! You guys are all amazing!What I appreciated most about this book was its embracing of ambivalence. As a child of Chinese immigrants, I know. I know how our relationships and love are complex and painful and filled with contradictions that don’t make sense to most people, but are nonetheless very, very real. Add that to the fact that new plots and characters were getting introduced with less than 20% to go and I am one unhappy camper. No ha sido lo que buscaba ☹️, uno de esos casos en los que las expectativas equivocadas matan el libro. Empecé esta lectura buscando una comedia romántica con la relación de relación falsa/novio por encargo, y bueno, el cliché está, pero la verdad es que no definiría esta historia en absoluto como comedia romántica. No me he reído demasiado, y no solo eso, sino que es que hay escenas en las que lo he pasado mal.



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