Sex and Vanity

True love will find a way, even among the status-obsessed and filthy rich . . . [With] irresistibly knowing humour and delightful central characters . . . This is the only way you're getting to Capri this year. Why resist?

Kirkus

Kwan follows up his Crazy Rich Asians trilogy with an intoxicating, breezy update of E.M. Forster's A Room with a View . . . There are moments both catty and witty . . . [A] delectable comedy of manners-the literary equivalent of white truffle and caviar pizza.

Publishers Weekly

Sex and Vanity scores high on all intended fronts; the opening half, set in Capri, is bathed in sunshine and sexual tension. The novel reads like travel porn, listing the island's best and lesser-known sights, places to eat, stay and drink. And then there is the story of Lucie Tang Churchill, a biracial New York princess from the Upper East Side, attending an eye-wateringly extravagant wedding.

Guardian

Effervescent, grand cru escapism. All the playful Kwan hallmarks are present and correct. Sex and Vanity may poke plenty of fun at the moral iniquities of the impossibly wealthy but it's also astute on the racism that can exist within Asian families as well as without.

Metro

This satirical romp through the gilded lives of the international super-rich is laugh-out-loud funny, with all the crackle you'd expect from the author of Crazy Rich Asians, plus a tender love story at its heart.

Sunday Mirror

Delicious and delightful, I adored it.

Daily Mail

Sex and Vanity is basically your PERFECT SUMMER READ. Set in Capri, New York & the Hamptons, the location descriptions are so evocative you will feel like you're there. The characters bounce around the globe engaging in pretty much the binary opposite of social distancing so a double win for this delicious, delightful romp.

Sara Lawrence, Daily Mail

As fizzy and refreshing as a peach Bellini.

Best

Love and gossip and glamour... oh my!

Cosmo

With a warm love story at its heart, Sex and Vanity is also a satire on the rich and privileged that you'll devour in one gulp.

Heat Magazine

From the writer of Crazy Rich Asians comes another bombshell book exploring the internal conflict when you pit class and love against one another.

Magic Radio’s Book Club

Sex and Vanity is light-hearted, unadulterated entertainment - ideal for lifting any lingering lockdown blues.

Culturefly

If you loved Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, you are no doubt going to love this story too . . . there is love and gossip and glamour - and what more would you want, really?

HerFamily.ie

A whip-smart homage to EM Forster's A Room With A View, but with designer outfits, lavish parties and Instagram.

Sunday Express

Delightful ... complete with designer outfits, glamorous parties, and exotic locations.

Independent BEST BOOKS OF 2020

Sex and Vanity is a deliciously decadent romp through Manhattan, the Hamptons and the Italian idyll of Capri.

Cornelia Guest

Kevin Kwan's witty, frothy and entirely delectableromcom is a sharp but affectionate satire on the luxurious lives of the international smart set.

Daily Mail

Sex and Vanity, another decadent romance novel by Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan ... [is] the perfect summer read.

You Magazine