Picked up this book because would like to give asian chic lit a try. It turn out ok ok. Set in the Singapore city, it is easy to relate with familiar culture, familiar food and familiar 'type of people & their kiasuness'.
Language used in this book is easy to read & understand, although the story seem to be a little dry & unrealistic towards the middle. Imagine meeting 3-4 men who are interested in the female lead in a matter of few days ... she must have been drop dead gorgeous..
One thing good, this book does depict life & marriages in a country like Singapore very honestly & openly. It doesn't paint a very rosy picture of all things true (and ugly).
The story line is a little routine though, a boy & a girl meet - how they fall in love - how he propose - how they got married - how they start living as husband & wife - how husband is always busy with work - how wife becomes bored of being siu nai nai - how wife meet better options out - how one venture into infidelity - how they got back / separated in the end.
Rate this book 2/5
From back of book :
Harvard literature phD cancdidate Audrey Lee's perfect life loses the plot when her brand new boyfriend, the dapper MBA Paul Chang, gets down on one knee, and of all te silly & ridiculous things, proposes marriage!
Suddenly Audrey is a fairy tale trapped and wed-locked into a life she never wanted, that of expat wife and homemaker in her hometown Singapore. And wouldn't you know it! That's when a number of attractive men pop up all interested in her, enough to make Audrey feel she may indeed be the Singaporean Madame Bovary or Lady Chatterley.
With Paul too absorbed in his career to care plus a few mishaps making marital mayhem, Mrs Mismarriage is starting to feel that perhaps she is destined to live....unhappily ever after...
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