Bride of the Water God: Volume 9

by Mi-Kyung Yun, 189 pages

Ooh, a fight! And a confusing but helpful look even further into Haebek's personal and family history. Who has the upper hand now??

For more details, please see my review of volumes 6-9 at NoFlyingNoTights!

Bride of the Water God: Volume 8

by Mi-Kyung Yun, 187 pages

The Emperor sits back and smiles as he watches his supposedly helpless pawns skirmish with one another and play right into his hands.

More surprising secrets are revealed, but the reader's still none the wiser about what's really going on or why. She can only hope the tables are turning. At least the art's pretty! :P

Bride of the Water God: Volume 7

by Mi-Kyung Yun, 176 pages

Soah is kidnapped from Suguk, but will Haebek even care, let alone look for her, if he can't remember who she is?

Through flashback, the reader learns a little more about Huye and Nakbin's complicated histories both with humans and with Haebek. Clearly, the Emperor has been playing with people's lives for his own ambitious desires for a long time. And no one is better off for the experience. Why do they let him be in charge when he's such a manipulator?! Somebody needs to kick his can....

Bride of the Water God: Volume 6

by Mi-Kyung Yun, 180 pages

Biryeom, god of the wind, adds his hand to the players at this mysterious game of hearts and souls as Mui asks Soah to trust him no matter what happens. But as long as the water god keeps secrets from her, and as long as the emperor and his pawns plot against them, fulfilling that request won't be easy. For how can she trust a man who suddenly doesn't even remember who she is?

If Mui would just get over his pride and be honest with Soah about his situation, there'd be a lot less misunderstanding between them. With the emperor pulling Yeo-Wa's desperate, fragile strings--and her slipping Haebek amnesia-inducing aphrodisiacs--the opportunities for mending are fewer and farther between than ever. I hope Yun clears the air a little--and lets us curiosity-filled readers in on at least some of the secrets--soon.

Bride of the Water God: Volume 5

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.... :)