I read See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan a couple of months ago and simply loved it. I expected more of the same in Peony, but didn't get it. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Peony, but it is a very different type of novel. Readers of Snow Flower should be prepared for that!
More mystical than Snow Flower, Peony in Love is narrated by Peony, a young girl who dies in the first third of the novel. She becomes a "hungry ghost" and continues her story from beyond the grave. Readers prepared for the supernatural elements of the novel will enjoy See's fine storytelling and will learn more about seventeenth century China in the process.
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