What is Laura Bickle reading?

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Laura Bickle, author of The Outside.

Her entry begins:

I’m reading Yangsze Choo’s The Ghost Bride. The premise is fascinating: Li Lan, the daughter of a family with failing fortunes in Malaya, has been asked to be the ghost bride to the dead son of a wealthy family. I’d heard of the concept of ghost brides before, the idea of promising the living in marriage to the dead to placate unhappy spirits. Choo expands upon this concept in an amazing way, as Li Lan struggles to escape such a marriage while being haunted by the ghost of the petulant and powerful dead son. Li Lan crosses into the world of the dead to...[read on]

About The Outside, from the publisher:

After a plague of vampires was unleashed in the world, Katie was kicked out of the safe haven of her Amish community for her refusal to adhere to the new rules of survival. She enters an outside world of unspeakable violence with only her two friends and a horse by her side.

And yet through this darkness come the shining ones: luminescent men and women with the power to deflect vampires and survive the night. But can they be trusted, and are they even people at all?

In this sequel to The Hallowed Ones, it's up to one Amish girl to save her family, her community, and the boy she loves .. . but what will she be asked to sacrifice in return?

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