The Ghost Bride by Yangsze ChooMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
The setting and mythology of this book are wonderful, the pacing, is not.
With the main character Li Lan bridging not only the world of the living and the dead, but the traditional Chinese and the more western cultures as well, the story has a somewhat dream-like feeling. However, it drags and I found myself more than once bothered by how long it took Li Lan to come to some sort of conclusion or action. Sadly the really interesting bits don't happen until the last 80% of the story and then there isn't much of a pay-off at the very end.
Read it for the setting description, read it for the mythology and cultural background, but don't read it for Li Lan. she's a nice girl, but...eh, not really someone that you will find interesting enough to want to hang out with the length of this novel.
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