“The memories of spirits and gods might by hazy, but not the memories of books. Stories are eternal.” Waves as high as buildings threatening your very existence. The only thing to save your brother and your kin is to sacrifice yourself.

Because of the yearly rage of the Sea God, the world is endangered with storms and floods. To lift the curse of the Sea God every year a bride is thrown into the sea. This time Mina’s future sister in law is chosen. Although rules forbid to interfere her brother follows his beloved with the risk of death. Mina will do anything to save her brothers live and decides to jump into the sea herself. Is Mina the bride who can lift the curse?

An Asian folktale retelling under sea filled with dragons, snakes and spirits and the cursed Sea God. This recently released book by Axie Oh is already loved by many. It’s been compared to the new Spirited Away and I get this resemblance as the world is filled with spirits, gods and dragons. In addition, the writing style of Oh is very whimsical and has a lot of wisdoms that resemblance wisdoms of Asian philosophy. With this Oh has created an action packed novel, each chapter ending in a cliffhanger making this book a real page turner. It even has a lot of elements of reflection that gives the reader moments to mull over. However, due to circumstances, I mostly listened to the audiobook which made this book almost unlikeable. Happily enough I read bits too and realized that this book had everything I wanted. So, I highly recommend reading this utter sweet, whimsical and lovely book, but please skip the audiobook as that was a real dread.