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My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
"I'm here to take you to live with your father. In Tokyo, Japan! Happy birthday!
In the Land of the Rising Sun, where high culture meets high kitsch, and fashion and technology are at the forefront of the First World's future, the foreign-born teen elite attend ICS - the International Collegiate School of Tokyo. Their accents are fluid. Their homes are ridiculously posh. Their sports games often involve a (private) plane trip to another country. They miss school because of jet lag and visa issues. When they get in trouble, they seek diplomatic immunity.
Enter foster-kid-out-of-water Elle Zoellner, who, on her 16th birthday discovers that her long-lost father, Kenji Takahara, is actually a Japanese hotel mogul and wants her to come live with him. Um, yes, please! Elle jets off first class from Washington, DC, to Tokyo, which seems like a dream come true. Until she meets her enigmatic father, her way-too-fab aunt, and her hypercritical grandmother, who seems to wish Elle didn't exist. In an effort to please her new family, Elle falls in with the Ex-Brats, a troupe of ubercool international kids who spend money like it's air. But when she starts to crush on a boy named Ryuu, who's frozen out by the Brats and despised by her new family, her already tenuous living situation just might implode.
My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life is about learning what it is to be a family and finding the inner strength to be yourself, even in the most extreme circumstances.
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- Daayzero
- 25-01-19
Enchanting as well as educational.
Wonderfully cute and enchanting. Listen to it makes you fall in love with Japan just through words alone. It tackles the harsh reality around Japanese Culture as well as it's enchanting parts that make Japan such an amazing country with a rich culture. it is a great way to experience the country through a heartful story of El learning her family and adjusting to her new life.
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- A Burke
- 06-02-20
Appalling narrator
The narrator should have done her research before recording this book. Characters who are supposed to know the correct pronunciation of Japanese words like Roppongi or Depachika end up saying roppongee and depah-chka for example. Frustrating when you know and love Japan and are stopped in your tracks every time the narrator mispronounces or uses a bad Japanese accent that really takes you out of context!
Lots of incoherences in the story, like how does Elle not know São Paolo is a place but knows about the Eiffel Tower? Isn’t she supposed to be a top student? You’d expect her to know her basic geography.
Anyway, mildly entertaining story, only listen to it if you want to hear touristy and basic stuff about japan
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-02-22
A mess of stereotypes and poor writing
I really struggled getting through this book and the narrator was hard to listen too. I would not recommend it even if you love Japan and Japanese culture.
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