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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
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I didn't really think this book would actually follow how everyone was describing it � Spirited Away meets Korean folklore. But it absolutely has serious Spirited Away vibes! Big shout out to Netgalley for providing this ARC.
The world building of the spirit realm, gods, creatures, etc is so well written, full of specific descriptions you feel like you're there. Mina chooses to throw herself into the ocean to be the Sea god's bride in order to save her brother's love from that fate. When she arrives in the spirit realm she meets Shin an his two friends who attempt to take her soul (which she retrieves). The Sea God is asleep plagued by nightmares and in these nightmares and her own grandmother's stories she will find the answers she seeks–how to break the curse. For while the Sea God sleeps, storms rage and people die in war, too.
She has help from (whom she figures out later) is her descendants (great great grandmother and grandfather) along with girls she knew from her village who have passed (including the last Sea God's bride). She slowly figures out that the boy sleeping in the palace is the lost emperor from 100 years ago who was saved by the Sea God. The Sea God is actually Shin (whom her ribbon of soulmate fate ends up getting tied to). The Sea God gave his soul (a dragon) to the emperor to save his life but in doing so lost his memories (and his soul, thus becoming Shin). When she returns their memories to them with the help of a Goddess, she makes a wish on a dragon pearl to restore the emperor and the Sea God to their rightful places, returning her to Earth.
In doing so both boys lose their memories until they start having dreams and the Goddess of memory returns the memories to them. The Emperor asks Mina to marry him but her heart belongs to Shin and Shin finally returns to her asking for her to return to the Spirit Realm as his bride.
Mina is brave and clever and a great storyteller (just like her grandmother). Shin and his friends have depth and it is great to see them slowly learn to trust her. The Goddesses kind of suck, not gonna lie. At least on of them redeems herself.
Angie Millar
The world building of the spirit realm, gods, creatures, etc is so well written, full of specific descriptions you feel like you're there. Mina chooses to throw herself into the ocean to be the Sea god's bride in order to save her brother's love from that fate. When she arrives in the spirit realm she meets Shin an his two friends who attempt to take her soul (which she retrieves). The Sea God is asleep plagued by nightmares and in these nightmares and her own grandmother's stories she will find the answers she seeks–how to break the curse. For while the Sea God sleeps, storms rage and people die in war, too.
She has help from (whom she figures out later) is her descendants (great great grandmother and grandfather) along with girls she knew from her village who have passed (including the last Sea God's bride). She slowly figures out that the boy sleeping in the palace is the lost emperor from 100 years ago who was saved by the Sea God. The Sea God is actually Shin (whom her ribbon of soulmate fate ends up getting tied to). The Sea God gave his soul (a dragon) to the emperor to save his life but in doing so lost his memories (and his soul, thus becoming Shin). When she returns their memories to them with the help of a Goddess, she makes a wish on a dragon pearl to restore the emperor and the Sea God to their rightful places, returning her to Earth.
In doing so both boys lose their memories until they start having dreams and the Goddess of memory returns the memories to them. The Emperor asks Mina to marry him but her heart belongs to Shin and Shin finally returns to her asking for her to return to the Spirit Realm as his bride.
Mina is brave and clever and a great storyteller (just like her grandmother). Shin and his friends have depth and it is great to see them slowly learn to trust her. The Goddesses kind of suck, not gonna lie. At least on of them redeems herself.
Angie Millar
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January 17, 2022
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