The Ghost Bride
by:
Yangsze Choo (author)
A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twists.'One evening, my father asked me whether I would like to become a ghost bride...'Though ruled by British...
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A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twists.'One evening, my father asked me whether I would like to become a ghost bride...'Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in t
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00A9V5YN8
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
This is set in Malaya in 1893 and is narrated by Li Lan, the sheltered daughter of a now bankrupt but still fairly respectable family. She would normally be expected to marry, but her father, grief-stricken after smallpox killed his wife when Li Lan was very young, withdrew from the world and began ...
I had a lot of fun with this book, a plot-driven historical fantasy novel whose fantastical elements are based on Chinese conceptions of the afterlife. Admittedly, I found part one (of four) a little tedious: this segment is more historical fiction than fantasy, and doesn’t play as much to Choo’s st...
This book sat unread on my Kindle for nearly three-and-a-half years. For NEARLY THREE-AND-A-HALF YEARS I deprived myself of the beautiful, evocative storytelling of Yangsze Choo. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!?!? (No, wait. Don’t answer that.) Semi-incoherent gushing to follow. This book is gorgeous. The...
The Ghost Bride is one of those books where you have to endure a bit and set aside some initial impatience (with the pace, with the characters, with the romance setup) until the story takes off and it all starts to evolve. There’s a lot to love here. The beautiful imagery, the cast of characters, th...
Ghostly, entertaining jaunt. Foreign setting, lots of fantasy, family intrigues and romance. Teens and young adults would be a good audience for this one. I liked it well enough, though I wanted to thump some sense into Li Lan several times. And she does the distressed damsel quite a bit. And some...
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