Entitled playboys, priceless ancient scrolls, and elevators that park your car—this is the world of the super rich who divide their time between Singapore and China. Lydia Look is an expert narrator of this hyperbolic story of billionaires in Asia. She distinguishes between the dizzying, mostly female, cast of characters, juggling middle-aged mothers and young brides as well as bored young men. At times, her delivery is screechy and her Chinese accent over the top, but these qualities accurately reflect the characters being portrayed. The story swings between gossip, intrigue, and betrayal in a world in which no one trusts anyone and everyone has too much money. M.R. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
It’s almost Valentine’s Day—and the perfect time to year to read a love story. But our tastes in romantic tales vary as much as our dating profiles: sometimes we want our literary lovers to make us laugh, and just as often, we need a really good cry. Whether your tastes tend toward the lighthearted or […]
There are novels, and there are anthropological studies, and then there are books that are a curious mixture of the two. Sometimes, they are fictional stories that explore a modern society or subculture with an almost scientific rigor; sometimes they’re memoirs or nonfiction books that blur the lines between fact and fiction or that inspire […]