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slaughter-books · 4 months

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Day 21: JOMPBPC: Hello, Winter Summer

It's Summer here in Australia right know, so I took a photo of a few beautiful, summery coloured books! 💕

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #hello winter #hello summer #summer colours #nick and charlie #alice oseman #loveboat taipei #abigail hing wen #an emotion of great delight #tahereh mafi #rise to the sun #leah johnson #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+#bookish #the little mermaid #i love books

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catgrant · 9 months

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excuse me??...? i'm getting a loveboat taipei movie??????? the day before rwrb???????

#i am being SPOILED #love in taipei #loveboat taipei #rwrb

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titsthedamnseason · 7 months

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finally watching love in taipei and oh wow did they make so many changes IMMEDIATELY

#mine #loveboat taipei

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psalm40speakstome · 8 months

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Love In Taipei was cute and not bad but also like as a fan of the book that was a VERY different experience

#although it was kinda #fun that it was you know #and I heard something about #a tv show?#which would make sense #love in taipei #loveboat taipei #I enjoyed it and it #was fun to see an #alternative to the book #I just wish I’d known #sooner then I wouldn’t have had #any cognitive dissonance #but it’s so pretty #and cute and definitely #worth the watch

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insomniac0330 · 8 months

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I’m actually really enjoying Love in Taipei. I wish they will take the opportunity to adapt it into a tv show bc this has so much potential and then I heard they cut out a lot of stuff from the book so that means there is a lot of source material for them to use to create a tv show. Like they could do what Dear White People did, make a movie and then later on make a tv show.

#love in taipei #loveboat taipei

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bookish-black-girl · 9 months

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a slightly unhinged review of Loveboat Reunion by Abigail Hing Wen

First, I'd like to start off this review with an apology. I truly adored Loveboat, Taipei, love me some Rick x Ever, and have posted my thoughts on that book in my other bookish haunts. So moving on to Loveboat Reunion was originally painful BECAUSE I had a one-sided beef with characters Sophie and Xavier (the former for making me love her and then the god-awful shit she did to Ever in pursuit of a boy, and the latter for being generally annoying + getting in the way of Rick and Ever being a proper couple skfhJhdfj)

So I bought LR during its release month, got through maybe the first chapter, and then said "Nope, can't do it" and proceeded to let the book decorate my shelf.

Fast forward to me trying to tackle my physical unreads, and with the last book in this series releasing this November, I went ahead and requested the audiobook from the library so at least I could listen at work.

Welp. Now for the apology part. I take back 98% of what I said and thought about Xavier and Sophie. I have never, ever hated, then been so stressed out and then been so invested in a YA book pairing as individuals and as a couple. Like....I went from dreading this reading experience TO GIVING IT A FULL 5 STARS AND MY BLESSING!!!

So...why did I give it 5 stars?? On with the review:

LR takes place just after the events of LT, and we quickly find out that Sophie plans to conquer Dartmouth while Xavier will be stuck repeating high school in order to get his inheritance, as spelled out by his strict and abusive father.

Sophie - She's extremely committed to making her own money and her own future, buoyed and cheered on by best friend Ever, and clearly and wholly repentant of the damage and drama she caused during her time on Loveboat. I loved her for that. Like, it did not take me long at all to fall back in love with her--a process expedited when she starts her classes and 1) has to find a job and starts putting her all into that and 2) the nonsense that is being a #WomanInStem and trying to get off the waitlist for a class she needs. Not to mention...she's still got her heartstrings attached to Xavier all while swearing off boys and trying to hold herself to that.

Xavier - Oh God, where do I even start with this guy?!? Both Sophie and Xavier's situations had me stressed the fuck out, but it was Dark Days Ahead™️ for Xavier. He's still dealing (or not dealing??) with his dyslexia, fighting to get from beneath his father's thumb and the Yeh Family's Legacy, fighting to get his inheritance with the ultimatum that he has to redo and graduate from his last year of high school, and ugh....just...the leftover grief from his mom's death years prior, and the amount of ableism, abuse, and self-gaslighting he dealt with?? All of this forced me to see him in a different light and to come to terms with how his environment shaped him into the person he is.

Now, the part where the stress began to leave my body and I became completely invested in the stakes for Sophie and Xavier aligns with the chapters that lead up to and detailed the moon festival weekend. Bullet points below to continue why this book has me in a chokehold:

The strength and the tenacity of the Yeh women and their support and love for Xavier (that last part concerns his great-aunts, but I really was in awe with all of Xavier's female family members and just as incensed as his cousin Lulu that they live in the shadows compared to the male family members.)

Second chance romance. I really like this trope but I just don't read it very often. So to see it done and done WELL in a YA Romance book of all places?!?! It just...set something at ease in my soul. Words fail me right now, but seeing the maturity and growth from both Xavier and Sophie, and watching them repair their friendship, make it strong, only to discover individually that it's not enough?? I WAS LIVINGGGGGGG (I've never rooted as hard for two people to end up together in recent memory as I did for Xavier and Sophie)

Another thing about romance/YA romance for me: in recent time I've gotten annoyed, bored, or stayed neutral with the double POV when it comes to the guy/male hero. Usually I tolerate them and find myself mostly invested in the heroine. And many times its not the fault of the writing or the plot, but me. I just can't be bothered to care the way I should. However, Abigail Hing Wen must be given her flowers immediately because she not only got me to care, she got me to fumble through a review no one will be bothered to read BECAUSE I HAD TO WRITE THESE THOUGHTS DOWN!!!

And now, some closing thoughts...

It's still so wild to me that the two characters I previously couldn't stand got their own book and I rated said book higher than the previous one in the series. And I JUST did a reread of LT this year!!! So everything is very fresh in my mind!!!

I adore how Sophie and Xavier literally were so supportive and present for one another, as friends and eventually as a reunited couple. Each saw the good, no, the best in the other, and made it a point to make the other see it and believe it. I have so many quotes from this book saved, but the issue is the scenes are pages instead of my usual 1-2 sentences or even at max, a paragraph!! (I didn't even bother trying to type it all out into my Storygraph notes, so I guess the most precious lines--pages--will just be between me and God lol.)

Lastly, I know that this is on Xavier and his healing journey and forgiveness being for nobody but himself, but as a reader, I do not forgive his Ba. Even if what he did was to protect Xavier and to serve his son's best interests, the decisions his Ba made won't ever sit right with me. To belittle your son, to physically and emotionally cause him harm, to use the memory of his mother to chastise him, to make him feel lower than dirt because his mind literally works differently than the 'norm'...it angers me.

I'm glad that Xavier chooses a path of love and forgiveness with his father in the end, but I truly believe his father wasn't deserving of any of that, and needs to put in the work to gain that back from his son.

ANYHOO that's my review!!

#blaire reads loveboat reunion #abigail hing wen #bookish talks #loveboat reunion #loveboat taipei #spoilers #tw: typos and grammar mistakes

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ramascreen · 9 months

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Author Abigail Hing Wen on Her Book-To-Film Adaptation, LOVE IN TAIPEI

In the anticipation of the new romantic comedy movie LOVE IN TAIPEI which will premiere Thursday, August 10 exclusively on the Paramount+ streaming service in the U.S. and Canada, on August 11 in the UK and Australia, and on August 25 in Latin America, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France (The premiere date for South Korea and additional territories will be announced at a later date),…

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#Abigail Hing Wen #Love In Taipei #Loveboat Taipei

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milevenxdepression · 2 years

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loveboat, taipei — abigail hing wen

#loveboat taipei #abigail hing wen #ever wong #rick woo #xavier yeh #loveboat

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desdasiwrites · 2 years

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And news flash- not speaking your language- in their own country- doesn't make anyone less intelligent than you.

– Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei

#book quote of the day #abigail hing wen #loveboat taipei #book quotes

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dreamingof-starsandmoon · 2 years

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This was such a fun little read!!! I’m in love!

#bookblr #book #bookaholic #loveboat #loveboat taipei #loveboat reunion

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signedbyvenus · 2 years

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Reading loveboat, taipei in chapter 29 and WTF THIS FUCKING RICK HAD APPEARED NOW WHEN I'M SHIPPING EVER WITH XAVIERRRRRRR

#bookblr #currently reading #loveboat taipei

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slaughter-books · 9 months

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Day 3: JOMPBPC: Summer

Four beautiful books that make me think of Summer! 💙

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #summer #golden boys #phil stamper #loveboat taipei #abigail hing wen #aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe #benjamin alire sáenz #the lightning thief #the percy jackson series #rick riordan #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+#bookish #moana #i love books

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rachread-books · 2 years

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My first quarter book reading update for 2022!

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teenageread · 5 months

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Review: Loveboat Forever

Synopsis:

Pearl was ready for a worldwide stage. Instead, she needs to stage a comeback.

Seventeen-year-old music prodigy Pearl Wong had the summer of her dreams planned: she’d been accepted into the ultra-exclusive New York Summer Symphony, where she was going to prove once and for all that she belonged in the rigid, unforgiving classical music world.

Then a fall from grace put her in need of new plans—and a new image. Where better to rebuild her shattered reputation than at Chien Tan, the Taipei summer program for elite students that rocketed her older sister, Ever, on a path to romance and self fulfilment years ago?

Pearl’s agent agrees. It’s the perfect plan. But as the alumni know, Chien Tan is actually Loveboat: a well-kept secret extravaganza, where prodigies party till dawn. There’s more awaiting Pearl at Loveboat than she could have ever imagined, like a scandalous party in the dark, a romantic entanglement with a mysterious suitor . . . and a summer that will change her forever.

Set six years after the events of Loveboat, Taipei, Loveboat Forever brings the whole gang back to campus for another reunion.

Plot:

Pearl was beyond excited to be accepted into Apollo Summer Youth Sympathy. With the recent passing of her father, who was a huge supporter of her piano playing, this was a dream made true as Pearl wanted to go to honor her father, plus spend some time in NYC where her older sister Ever lived as a dancer. Wanting to share her excitement, Pearl posted a TikTok that went viral - for the wrong reason. With Apollo taking away her acceptance, Pearl’s manager said she needed a summer to lie low, and hopefully next summer she can get back into Apollo and restart her career. What better way to lie low, and reconnect with her roots, than Chien Tan, a language and cultural program in Taipei, better known as Loveboat. It was the same program that six years earlier, Ever, and something she encouraged Pearl to do. Heading over to Taipei, Pearl connects with family friend Sophie and her boyfriend, Xavier, along with Rick, who is still madly in love with Ever. Having her own Love Boat experience, Pearl makes new friends and a few crushes, as she comes into her own she discovers who she is beyond her piano, and makes a few kisses along the way.

Thoughts:

Abigail Wen is back, giving us the final Loveboat novel, featuring favorites from the first two, as they tell the story of Pearl (Ever’s younger sister), and her Loveboat experience. So taken from the first-person point of view of Pearl, we get to experience Loveboat one more time, from a narrator who is excited to be there. Yes, despite this not being her plan, Pearl is excited to experience Loveboat as it is, as Wen has her making friends, forming crushes, and going to all the parties, just like her older sister. With multiple guest experiences from Loveboat favorites, Wen does a fantastic job tying series favorites to this novel, while expertly telling us Pearl’s journey. Just as Chien Tan / Loveboat suggests, Wen has two plots happening to Pearl’s life at once: her connecting to her family, and her connecting to her heart. For her family, Wen dives deep into Pearl’s musical life, and who she plays for, giving her depth and character development as she discovers this important part of herself. The other half is her love life, with two boys, a mystery one, and finally with herself. Even though Pearl does not go as crazy as Ever did, Wen gives Pearl the excitement of over-the-top dates, wild parties, and top-notch kisses as Pearl learns more about love, and what it takes to love someone. With a wonderful ending that wraps up the whole Loveboat series, Wen gives you something to root for and makes you happy that everything ends in love and happiness within this series.