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A review by dilchh
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
4.0
Well it was a quick read; took me just a day to finish it. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much when I first picked up the book, thinking that it will make a nice break from other books that I have read this year. I was surprised to actually like this book very much and can’t seem to put the book down.
At times I found this book really fast paced that I refused to stop because I was too curious about where the story going to happened next. It was indeed a story full of adventures, it was almost like Li Lan (the main character) was living her own fair share of ‘alice-in-wonderland-experience’, if Alice was venturing to the land of the dead.
I liked the fact that this story gave me a lot of insight into a culture and beliefs that I am not familiar with; it really is nice to picked up a book thinking that it was going to be a random light story but in the end it gave you more insights than you would have bargain for.
As much as I like this book, sometimes I hate the fact that Li Lan seems to not learn much from her experience as she kept on letting her curiosities take the best of her, resulting her being a damsel in distress over and over again; then she would resolve to asking Er Lang for help over and over again. Don’t get me wrong, even from the beginning I liked Li Lan’s interaction with Er Lang rather than with Tian Bai, but must we have Li Lan be saved time and time again, and not just have her saved herself (or better yet, let her for once learn her lesson).
Putting my complaint aside, I like this book very much; it sure is a nice surprise to picked up this book and liking the adventure it brings. Anyway, but I kept on imagining Haku’s (the dragon from Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away) face all grown up when I pictured about Er Lang.
At times I found this book really fast paced that I refused to stop because I was too curious about where the story going to happened next. It was indeed a story full of adventures, it was almost like Li Lan (the main character) was living her own fair share of ‘alice-in-wonderland-experience’, if Alice was venturing to the land of the dead.
I liked the fact that this story gave me a lot of insight into a culture and beliefs that I am not familiar with; it really is nice to picked up a book thinking that it was going to be a random light story but in the end it gave you more insights than you would have bargain for.
As much as I like this book, sometimes I hate the fact that Li Lan seems to not learn much from her experience as she kept on letting her curiosities take the best of her, resulting her being a damsel in distress over and over again; then she would resolve to asking Er Lang for help over and over again. Don’t get me wrong, even from the beginning I liked Li Lan’s interaction with Er Lang rather than with Tian Bai, but must we have Li Lan be saved time and time again, and not just have her saved herself (or better yet, let her for once learn her lesson).
Putting my complaint aside, I like this book very much; it sure is a nice surprise to picked up this book and liking the adventure it brings. Anyway, but I kept on imagining Haku’s (the dragon from Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away) face all grown up when I pictured about Er Lang.