Zen Cho's Black Water Sister
I’ve really enjoyed all the other stuff I’ve read by Cho, but this one didn’t one hundred percent work for me. It’s about a recent Harvard grad who moves to Malaysia with her parents (who are from there) and realizes she’s being haunted by her recently deceased grandmother, who is determined to protect a temple from corrupt developers. Only maybe there’s more going on? I did like all the supernatural stuff with the gods and their mediums, and I loved the family dynamics, but the plot was kind of … not there? So parts of this were just reallllllyyyy sloooooow. It felt really repetitive. And the whole secret girlfriend thing was way underdeveloped. I will still read whatever Cho writes next, this just wasn’t my favorite. B/B+.
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