by Mi-Kyung Yun, 190 pages Soah hasn't been back in Suguk long before one crisis comes fast on the heels of another. Just as Mui throws her for a loop by suddenly proposing marriage, the desperate villagers appear to sacrifice another bride to Haebek, leaving her to the waves and the monster they believe inhabits them. Soah can't let someone else die just because she fears losing her place, so she begs Mui to save the young woman. But when he grumblingly pulls her from the water, everyone catches their breath, for she looks just like Nakbin, Haebek's beloved dead wife.
Melodrama! Yeo-Wa, the Nakbin look-alike, is a little unhinged. Is Nakbin really dead? Or is this all part of the emperor's scheming? He, himself, has gone around wearing her face before, so the reader wouldn't put it past him to take his obsessive, unsettling interference that far. What does he want with Soah? What hold does he have over Huye? Who is Tae-Eul-Jin-In, really, and why does Haebek let him stay? Who's connected to whom by the red thread of fate? Where do everyone's true loyalties lie?? Every time I read one of these, the snippets of truth revealed just generate more, eager-reader questions. Happily, the involving melodrama does not come unaccompanied by some humor, as well. And as much as Soah is at Haebek / Mui's mercy, she gives him back as much trouble as he gives her and isn't afraid to disregard orders or tell him where he can put them. Now if she would just figure out that she's already married to the man who's just proposed to her.... :)
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