I try to take the “drama” that happens in these sorts of books with a grain of salt, but there were some storylines included in Loveboat that I felt didn’t need to be there, including a nude photo scandal involving our main character and nightly clubbing I got rather bored with. Keeping that in mind, I’m not a teenage anymore. Loveboat, Taipei is meant to be a fun novel, a frothy romp through Taiwan with plenty of teenage drama to go around. It just didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to for a variety of reasons, most of which being what happened with the romance, as well as a few other unbelievable storylines my brain refused to compute. Loveboat, Taipei was being heavily marketed as a book fans of CRA would love, and since I’m one of those fans, I decided to give it a go. Now, if you don’t know me, you won’t know that the Crazy Rich Asians movie is one of my favorites. But when she arrives in Taipei, she discovers more than just her heritage. In addition to being a doctor, Ever’s parents also want her to learn Mandarin and reconnect with her roots. That is, until she’s shipped off to Taiwan. Despite her aversion to blood and general disinterest in being a doctor, Ever is prepared to do what her parents demand of her, even if it costs her her happiness.
They want her to go to medical school, Ever wants to attend Tisch School of the Arts. They want her to be a doctor, she wants to be a dancer. Trained in ballet and an integral part of her high school’s flag team, Ever is the opposite of what her strict parents want her to be. All Ever has wanted to do with her life was dance. Loveboat, Taipei is a sparkling debut novel by Abigail Hing Wen, a YA contemporary story set at a language school in Taipei, Taiwan, following the journey of our main character, Everett Wong.
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