Name: Bonjour Shanghai
ISBN: 9781459742314

Isabelle Laflèche

Clementine Liu is heading to Shanghai on an exchange. But with cute boys, drama at home, and a cutthroat local blogging scene, can she stay true to herself?

Bonjour Girl

Bonjour Shanghai

Jelke Lenaerts

This book has content warnings for sexual assault and gambling addiction.
I RECEIVED A GALLEY OF THIS BOOK THROUGH NETGALLEY.

I hate the fact that I requested this on Netgalley before reading the first one because I just really didn't want to spend more time with these characters ... Gosh ... I just ... I was in pain throughout most of this book. The main character is so dramatic and everyone just goes along with it like it's normal. Nothing is ever her fault. (view spoiler)[ Like at one point in this book she gets under fire for promoting a designer who is racist and she puts the blame on this guy who introduced her to the designer. "I didn't know he was racist." Honey, you want to be a journalist DO YOUR FUCKING RESEARCH! ALWAYS DO YOUR FUCKING RESEARCH! This whole plot point could have been resolved if she would have done her job as a journalist and DO HER RESEARCH.  (hide spoiler)] Not a lot happened in the first half of the book and the conflict that happened in the second half was resolved incredibly quick. It's supposed to be the end of the world but it's fixed in 5 seconds. In the end, just like in the first book, the main character, her best friend and her boyfriend just get everything their hearts desire for the most unrealistic reason ever. The beginning had me a bit hopeful because it set up a sexual assault case and a character with a gambling addiction. The discussion around those things could have been so interesting but as soon as the main character dissapears to Shangai (which is very quickly) who almost never hear about these things. Please, don't waste your time on this one like I did.

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