There's No Stopping This Skinny Bibik

by Sandra Chua

Nonya Charlie has found love, or so she thinks.

Rebel that she is, Charlie Neo has chosen love over her family when she decides to leave Singapore and move to Penang to be with her ex-spy boyfriend. Charlie struggles to build a new life, working various jobs, including the role as assistant for a TV news anchor, and reuniting with a grandaunt who is her own brand of hot-blooded bibik. She becomes embroiled in a kidnapping of two genius hackers and gets into trouble involving money laundering, sending her running back to her Peranakan roots.

308 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 21, 2024

About the author

Sandra Chua is a former magazine editor and meddlesome mother of three exasperated daughters. In addition, she's an avid bookworm, K-drama addict and Domestic Goddess wannabe. There Is No Such Thing as a Skinny Bibik is her first novel.

Reviews

[Leafartt · Rating 3 out of 5]

unfortunately suffers massively from 2nd book syndrome (i hope its the 2nd?). i was really enjoying it till the chapter about grandma pinky n captain fraser, just felt like it was really unnecessary and i still cant unds why that was included. the book could easily have been a 100 pages shorter, yet so many loose ends weren't tied up. what happened to the warehouses? i assume this book was meant to be a set up for the next book but the way it was done was pretty distasteful. i do love the characters and loved the first book so i will continue reading though 😔

the final conflict w sheng also came out of nowhere imo. the first 2/3 of the book was written really well, but the last third really just felt like lazy writing. was prepared to give 4/5, but was let down

[TS Tan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The storyline of this one is less of a lark, but it is just a backbone of the life of a well-to-do, don't-know-what-she-really-wants young lady, to hang a few life anecdotes of old nonyas. The ending is a bit of let-down, with the sub-plot on the possible discovery of a Malacca Strait wreck, hanging out with no satisfying conclusion.

[Kataklicik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would make a great tv series!