A review by sci_mom
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw

3.0

This story is about lost opportunities, the sins of the fathers being visited on the children, and finally coming to terms with your true self...I think. The writing is good and the story is somewhat compelling, but it is nearly all narrative and I have said in previous reviews that I connect to characters more through dialogue. As a result, it took me a while to plow through the nearly 400 pages and I didn't really care about the characters even at the end, which was good because their stories didn't come to satisfying conclusions. If this hadn't been a good reads giveaway, I probably would have stopped reading it about halfway through due to my lack of connection to the characters. It mostly left me wondering why anyone would want to be an illegal immigrant in Shanghai.