She’s bitter, holds a grudge and has an agenda but she’s also a snarky and funny character I loved to read. It was interesting to read her come to terms with the ghostly things happening to her all the while figuring out why and fulfilling her grandmother’s and the spirit’s wishes.Īh Ma… what a character. She was relatable, minus the otherworldly part of course. The internal conflicts that she goes through in the book ultimately make her more confident to stand up for herself. Cho captured the feelings of a 20-something year old struggling in life through her character perfectly. She makes messy decisions and is unlikeable sometimes.

Her character is compelling, she’s trying her hardest to dodge the problems life throwed at her but more kept piling up. ❛It figured that she’d avoided getting nagged to go to law school, only to get nagged to become a vessel of the dead.❜ Jess’s life is complicated enough but now she starts hearing her dead grandmother’s voice who has unfinished business and comes to know of the god she served. Jess has just graduated from Harvard with no idea about job prospects, family problems forces her to move back to Malaysia and she’s still finding her footing as an America returned, figuring out how to come out to her parents as gay while trying to maintain a long distance relationship. Black Water Sister is an urban fantasy that follows the story of Jessamyn who moves back to Malaysia where she connects with the ghost of her grandmother and is introduced to vengeful spirits, gods and family dynamics. This is the first Zen Cho novel I’m reading and suffice to say I will be checking out their other works.

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho