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The Chosen and the BeautifulAn Instant National Bestseller! An Indie Next Pick! A B&N Reads April Pick! A Most Anticipated in 2021 Pick for Oprah Magazine USA Today Buzzfeed Greatist BookPage PopSugar Bustle The Nerd Daily Goodreads Literary Hub Ms. Magazine Library Journal Culturess Book Riot Parade Magazine Kirkus The Week Book Bub OverDrive The Portalist Publishers Weekly A Best of Summer Pick for TIME Magazine CNN NBC News CBS News Book Riot The Daily Beast Lambda Literary
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A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR
"A vibrant and queer reinvention of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic. . . . I was captivated from the first sentence."--NPR "Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today."--Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen "A sumptuous, decadent read."--The New York Times "Vo has crafted a retelling that, in many ways, surpasses the original."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review Immigrant. Socialite. Magician.
Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society--she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how. Nghi Vo's debut novel, The Chosen and the Beautiful, reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice.
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★★★★★ 3
i should have waited for there to be reviews posted
Format: Kindle
I'm being more generous than I should because this is a debut novel
i downloaded this book because i like why choose and band romances
i figured that it wouldn't take too long to get back to where the prologue was because the prologue seemed to be less than a day before they met
the FMC and the MMCs don't meet til 60 % of the way in which for a Romance novel kinda hard for the relationship to develop or for there to be plot beyond them just meeting in a way where the FMC really lacks agency
a lot of early plot and character things are forgotten about after they met
it's almost as if the last third of the book was written first and then they went back to write backstory separately but forgot there needs to be a plot
i get wanting to have background on the characters, but there has to be a way to do it without constant time jumps and no plot progression. Tessa's story jumps around a week lead up so much
also the band aspect is very much an afterthought in the novel
Spoilers--
one of the MMCs is openly pan and one of them has been dealing with a bi awakening but being somewhat defensive about it and once Tessa arrives that gets forgotten about til the epilogue and even then doesn't actually confront his sexuality
the wrap up of the church hiding her name is tied up with a quick sentence, but no real consequences for anyone
i honestly thought she forgot about family pack IRS deal until the final chapter and that gets resolved in an unsatisfying way
the pack is upset that Tessa gets viewed as an object and tricked into the contract but has no interest in making the company's wrongdoings public or trying to prevent this from happening to other omegas
tessa goes over a lot of struggles of homelessness but she only thinks about food waste once after joining the pack -- you'd think she'd use her newfound wealth and power to help other homeless individuals, especially youths and omegas. even a little side note to say that a portion of tour proceeds or her family fortune would go towards public food pantries and shelters would've done something to connect her beginning character to the end character
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Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2025
★★★★★ 3
BORING and too long
Format: Kindle
I could not believe how wordy and boring this book was. No spice at all. Slow burn is really a NO burn. Almost DNF and now I’m sorry I stuck with it. 500 pages could ave been 150 and it would have been more than enough. I highly doubt not recommend this work of yuck.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2026
★★★★★ 4
Good read
Format: Kindle
Good book but good God was there a lot of preamble when I just wanted them to meet already haha
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Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2025
★★★★★ 4
Still 4 stars
Format: Kindle
A little to much before and to much dive into the days, months before, but I still kept reading. Maybe because of that you could read about them all. I just couldn't put this book in my to read another day list. I just wanted to know what happens to them.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2026
★★★★★ 3
Promising but not without issues
Format: Kindle
First off, the FMC and the pack don't meet until about 60% of the way through.
That's just way too late honestly. I can appreciate the backstory of the band and the FMC, but I skimmed at times wondering when they'd meet.
I did like the writing and premise but I thought the execution needed a lot of work.
The characters were pretty well developed, but they didn't spend that much time on the page together, so I thought that led to the story suffering.
I will give her another shot, as I think the writing has promise... It just didn't come all together in a way that I could wholeheartedly recommend.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2025