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Uma Americana Em Pequim (2011)

by Ann Mah(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Edições Asa

review 1: I'd put this book in the same "guilty pleasure" kind of genre as Confessions of a Shopaholic. It's not at all a page turner, you feel pretty happy as you read it because it doesn't make you uncomfortable or really yearning to know more, and you can pretty much guess what's going to happen before it does. It all seemed to work out too happily at the end, and it wasn't necessarily a well-written, well-constructed book. However, I enjoyed it - I found it to be a fun read to pass the time.
review 2: Kitchen Chinese is a charming, well written book with mouth-watering culinary descriptions. Which is good, because you've heard the story a million times. Cute Chinese/American girl loses her job and moves to Beijing to live with her wealthy successful sister. In two... more seconds (even though she only speaks "kitchen Chinese"), she lands a super job reviewing restaurants for the top expat magazine in China and her sister, of course, lives in an apartment at one of the best addresses in the city. When the lovely gentlemen the author runs into in the lobby turns out to be the American Ambassador to China, it's no surprise. To say she ends up with the ambassador instead of the irresponsible rock star is giving nothing away. You know it before you've read a third of the book which is what annoyed me. Ann Mah's strength is her in-depth knowledge of food and she writes more than well enough. Someone should have helped her tweak the plot so it was less predictable. I won't tell you if the central character "finds herself" with her ambassador in China or in Paris where they will live after married--you need some surprise. Because this typical romance novel is beautifully couched in international sophistication, it will help time fly when you set off on your own long flight to discover who you are. less

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