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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Axie Oh
Genre : Fantasy, Young Adult
I spent ten days in Japan and a day in Busan, South Korea this past year and was introduced to the concept of many, many lesser and greater gods, so I was intrigued to read a Korean folktale about the Sea God.
Mina’s brother loves the next beautiful girl, Shim Cheong, who is to be thrown in the sea to serve as the Sea God’s bride, in hopes that she will be chosen to end the deadly storms and floods that erode the land. She believes the Sea God who was once their protector has now cursed them. To save her brother, Mina throws herself into the water in Cheong’s stead.
Set between heaven and earth, Mina finds herself in the Spirit Realm, a magical city of lesser gods and mythical beasts where she finds the Sea God caught in an enchanted sleep. She doesn’t have much time: A human cannot live long in the land of the spirits.
“My whole life, I’ve lived surrounded by gods. There are thousands of them—the god of the well at the center of our village, who sings through the croaking of the frogs, the goddess of the breeze that comes from the west as the moon rises, the god of the stream in our garden, to whom Joon and I used to leave offerings of mud cakes and lotus lily pies. The world is filled with gods, for each part of nature hs a guardian to watch over and protect it. My grandmother often said that the most dangerous of gods are those who are forgotten.”
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