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✨️Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan✨️ – Review

While in Capri for a childhood friend’s wedding, Lucie Churchill meets George Zao and instantly hates him. Whether through the romance of the wedding or their chemistry or the heavily enticing environment of Capri, lucie and George grow closer in a short amount of time. Years after the wedding in Capri, newly engaged Lucie runs into George and feelings from the past begin to stir.
Sex and Vanity is a story of love, race, privilege, narcissism, family, and finding oneself.

I loved this book – Kevin Kwan stays as one of my favorite writers and I’mconfident I’ll be a fan of his for life. I was disappointed that there wasn’t more, or that it wasn’t a trilogy like Crazy Rich Asians. I definitely need Kwan to write more books.

I didn’t love this as much as Crazy Rich Asians because
🥂there weren’t as many food descriptions
💖the ending was somewhat predictable to me – I felt like something dramatic and crazy would happen like in Crazy Rich Asians.

And honestly, I hated Cecil – though he does have a couple good qualities, he’s mostly insufferable and I wanted to meet him in real life so I could bitch slap him with the book.
Lucie and Cecil’s breakup seemed kind of random and prolonged, but I was so happy that it finally did happen. And during it Cecil acted so different from what I expected, it seemed kind of out of character – he was very mature about it and took it extremely well.

The end of the book itself was weird to me even though you could tell it was going to happen. Maybe I just thought that Lucie and George would happen later because I thought the book was longer than it actually is.

Read on (and Kevin Kwan, please write more books).