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A review by shereadytoread
Linghun by Ai Jiang
4.5
It is a literary horror that focuses on the haunting of grief and what people will give up to try to hold on to a piece of their loved one. The story examines multiple people in multiple stages of grief. It is a rather bleak but striking tale.
The story is told from three POVs: our MC Wenqi; another child of grieving parents forced here by his parents, Liam; and another neighbor dealing with her grief alone.
Our main character has been forced to move by her parents as they are chasing the memory of their older deceased son. We get to see the complicated family dynamics that arise due to her parents neglect interfering with her being able to grieve herself. We see a lot of iterations of grief and loss, followed with many horrors of what being frozen in grief can cause.
The story is told from three POVs: our MC Wenqi; another child of grieving parents forced here by his parents, Liam; and another neighbor dealing with her grief alone.
Our main character has been forced to move by her parents as they are chasing the memory of their older deceased son. We get to see the complicated family dynamics that arise due to her parents neglect interfering with her being able to grieve herself. We see a lot of iterations of grief and loss, followed with many horrors of what being frozen in grief can cause.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Child death and Violence