Last Tang Standing: The most hilarious, feel-good debut romcom you’ll read all year!

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I loved a glimpse into similar struggles with dating but in a unique setting and cultural background that I know very little about. Part of the humor of the story is that the reader is aware of the romantic undercurrents between Andrea and Suresh, while she remains oblivious. As it was stated in the synopsis, this book is exactly like Crazy Rich Asians meet Bridget Jones Diary.

Glad I persevered as a little romance was comforting and put the protagonist in situations that were more comical and light hearted.Andrea narrates in her diary entries how silly and irreverent some of her Chinese relatives and friends could be just so they wouldn't be disowned or disinherited. The only thing that makes her feel marginally better is when men compliment her work, which made me sad. There’s a moment where Andrea talks about her friend catching her husband giving another man a blowjob, takes pictures, and then because she’s “heartbroken but not stupid” she uses those pics as leverage in her divorce.

She has an emotional growth arc, where she learns to appreciate her friends even though they have too much plastic surgery, date assholes, and like to have public FaceTime sex. It was fast paced, funny and taught me alot about the Chinese-Malaysian culture and how pressured women feel that they have to get married young or by their thirties or their families will disown them and cut them out. If you’d like to receive updates in your inbox, visit our subscribe page and sign up for the content you crave! Throw in some crazy friends, some alcohol, more meddling by family, and you have a woman who's on the brink of either alcoholism or insanity.Both joyfully entertaining and socially perceptive, Lauren Ho’s debut is a vivid read on dating, work and family in Singapore through the lens of a brutally honest protagonist of gold. Malaysian born-and-raised Andrea Tang is a successful lawyer and has broken up with a boyfriend who had been tagged as an approved can-be-a-husband by the Asian family. For fans of Crazy Rich Asians and Bridget Jones’s Diary comes a hilarious story of love, friendship and the most intrusive people in the world: family. I loved them and the story so much that I only took one break (to sleep) before quickly picking it up again and finishing it.

Andrea was funny and brash and the romance in this is a mixture of hate to love and the definition of slowwww burn. I appreciate Lauren Ho’s use of style here because Andrea seems self-aware about the fact that her family is ridiculous.I also like that the heroine had relationships with several different men over the course of the novel while trying to figure herself out.

We follow the diary entries of Andrea Tang, early thirties, living in Singapore- trying to have it all, under the critical eye of her relatives, and meet the right kind of man before her (projected by her family) expiration date. The book is predictable, but I don’t need contemporary romance books to blow me away with plot twists.

If you want a light but equally inspiring story to read during summer, give Last Tang Standing a go. Doesn’t she have anything better to do with her free time than fixate on her daughter’s lack of prospects? Both affecting and uplifting, this book is for anyone who has ever had a problem with family and boundaries… in fact, for anyone who has ever had a family.