Hardcover, 336 pages
English language
Published Feb. 22, 2022 by Feiwel & Friends.
Deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God’s bride, in the hopes that one day the “true bride” will be chosen and end the suffering.
Many believe that Shim Cheong, the most beautiful girl in the village—and the beloved of Mina’s older brother Joon—may be the legendary true bride. But on the night Cheong is to be sacrificed, Joon follows Cheong out to sea, even knowing that to interfere is a death sentence. To save her brother, Mina throws herself into the water in Cheong’s stead.
Swept away to the Spirit Realm, a magical city of lesser …
Deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God’s bride, in the hopes that one day the “true bride” will be chosen and end the suffering.
Many believe that Shim Cheong, the most beautiful girl in the village—and the beloved of Mina’s older brother Joon—may be the legendary true bride. But on the night Cheong is to be sacrificed, Joon follows Cheong out to sea, even knowing that to interfere is a death sentence. To save her brother, Mina throws herself into the water in Cheong’s stead.
Swept away to the Spirit Realm, a magical city of lesser gods and mythical beasts, Mina seeks out the Sea God, only to find him caught in an enchanted sleep. With the help of a mysterious young man named Shin—as well as a motley crew of demons, gods and spirits—Mina sets out to wake the Sea God and bring an end to the killer storms once and for all.
But she doesn’t have much time: A human cannot live long in the land of the spirits. And there are those who would do anything to keep the Sea God from waking…
To me this reads like something from the same place where Studio Ghibli draws inspiration from.
The ambience of the story, the flow and the characters. I grabbed this book randomly and I'm so very happy I did
I liked how the story is written. The flow an how it makes vivid images of the spirit world. I likes the characters and how the interact in this over the top anime way. (The whole story was in a realy cool anime style with beautiful backround in my head)
The reason why I don't give this book five stars is, because it is only fun if you ignore what the story means. It is over the top romantic. It is so romantic that it only can exist in fiction in this way an would be utterly toxic if real.
And aparrently the best woman can become in this world is bride/wife of a powerfull man. Even if they are clever and find their way in the spirit world, they don't get powers on their own, they just can get the love of a man. And the more powerfull the …
I liked how the story is written. The flow an how it makes vivid images of the spirit world. I likes the characters and how the interact in this over the top anime way. (The whole story was in a realy cool anime style with beautiful backround in my head)
The reason why I don't give this book five stars is, because it is only fun if you ignore what the story means. It is over the top romantic. It is so romantic that it only can exist in fiction in this way an would be utterly toxic if real.
And aparrently the best woman can become in this world is bride/wife of a powerfull man. Even if they are clever and find their way in the spirit world, they don't get powers on their own, they just can get the love of a man. And the more powerfull the man, the better (it is said out loud "why would she be the bride of an emperor if she is the bride of a god.) And if they don't get the love of a man the least they can do is take care of children...
And I really hate it, that in this story it ist romantic and not a little bit problematic, that a 18 year old girl (16 when they fell in love) is marrying the fucking ever living sea god, which seems to be the most powerfull beeing in this world! She has no magic powers on her own, apparrently never traveled past her village or had any romatic relationsship with someone else! She can't even leave the spirit world without his help, where she has nothing to do for eons beside beeing his wife an visit her friends. This will be a hundred procent an abusive relationship in the future!
