Date Of Review: May 13, 2025
Review Left On GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7451004133
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Author: Axie Oh
Narrator: Rosa Escoda
Started: May 12, 2025
Finished: May 13, 2025
Genre: fantasy, historical fiction
Length: 8 hours, 50 minutes
Part Of A Series: no
Type Of Book: audio
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216470365-the-girl-who-fell-beneath-the-sea
Storygraph Link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b5c8cd76-d9a2-4b46-9ec9-f70ab3b4c2ce

Review:

I loved this book. However, the fact that Mina had to seemingly do it on her own didn't seem right. I get the whole women need strong characters, etc, etc. It just felt like she could have leaned on Cheong just a little more. Mina was there to make sure she got to be her brothers bride, so why shouldn't Cheong have helped?

Other then that it was paced as well as it could have been for how short it was. A story like this is complex. It would have been a far longer book had the author fleshed all the characters out. It would have dragged on in my opinion had that been done.

Goodreads Description:

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…

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