27 Mar / Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela S. Choi
What a fast-paced, can’t put-down, biting, over-the-top debut! You’ll have to read it for the body count alone … I couldn’t keep track after the first dozen or so, ahem! I admit it: my math skills are definitely challenged! Who knew murder and mayhem could be sooooo entertaining??!! Young fiction newbie Angela S. Choi certainly knows how to keep you turning the pages, wide-eyed for a few, then guffawing over the next.
In spite of being a Yale-educated corporate lawyer with her killer Jimmy Choos and Armani wardrobe, Fiona Yu remains the dutiful Chinese American daughter, virginally unmarried, who still lives at home with her pushy immigrant parents. No matter how much she hates Hello Kitty for her “clawless, fangless, voiceless, with that placid, blank expression topped by a pink ribbon”-representation of the perfect subservient Asian female, Fi can’t seem to liberate herself “from the confines of tradition, culture, and family.”
She can’t stand the blind dates her parents send her on, but she can’t seem to get beyond three dates with anyone of her own choosing. She’s convinced her virginity is in the way, decides to deal with that little problem her very own way, and discovers she’s missing something she really does want. Off she goes in search of … reconstruction of sorts … and surprisingly, gleefully reunites with her bad-boy childhood best friend who’s reinvented himself as a prominent plastic surgeon with morals all his own! His is a whole different sort of Hippocratic oath, shall we say?
The book is scheduled to release next week … go get on the pre-order list right now. You’ll thank me for sure!
Readers: Adult
Published: 2010
Ok now THAT sounds like a book I have to read!!!
Hello, ello … you MUST MUST MUST. And then come tell me what you thought so we can giggle over the best parts!
Check out Choi’s bio on her website, too (parts not suitable for family-friendly fare) … she’s no Hello Kitty for sure. Gotta love her fiery attitude! Hope she’s got lots more novels in her!
Hurry up with yours, too!
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I am definitely getting that book!
Oooh … you’re back, too! Do please let us know what you think …
FYI … I heard from Angela Choi — the contact page on her website (linked here) is SOOOO funny as are many of her pages, ahem! — that she’s hard at work on her next book. No more adventures of Fi (what happens in Kitty stays in Kitty), but surely more shocking laughter to come! Can’t wait!
I’ve been given the go-ahead to share the news: Angela’s next book is tentatively titled Jesus Will See You Now. I had to chuckle at that, having gone to parochial school for a year (and still a bit traumatized from the experience, oh these many decades later!). No Fi … but “another heroine, another villain,” she says.