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A review by apumaru
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
4.0
Simplified summary:
Jess is haunted by her grandmother.
Opening lines:
The first thing the ghost said to Jess was: Does your mother know you're a pengkid?
Review:
This book is so messy!! Everyone's lying, characters are making dumb decisions, no one knows what's going on - kids, adults, ghosts, gods, it doesn't matter, they're all figuring things out. But it is all consistent and makes sense for each character! I think that's what makes this book so captivating. So often in literature and especially in fantasy, there are very clear right and wrong things, there's almost always a black and white. This whole book was gray.
Also, the way the author handled the perspective of an immigrant and showed the multi-cultural and multi-ethnic population of a country that's not the states was one of my favorite ways anyone has done it.
Jess is haunted by her grandmother.
Opening lines:
The first thing the ghost said to Jess was: Does your mother know you're a pengkid?
Review:
This book is so messy!! Everyone's lying, characters are making dumb decisions, no one knows what's going on - kids, adults, ghosts, gods, it doesn't matter, they're all figuring things out. But it is all consistent and makes sense for each character! I think that's what makes this book so captivating. So often in literature and especially in fantasy, there are very clear right and wrong things, there's almost always a black and white. This whole book was gray.
Also, the way the author handled the perspective of an immigrant and showed the multi-cultural and multi-ethnic population of a country that's not the states was one of my favorite ways anyone has done it.