The God and the Gwisin

Livre broché, 416 pages

Langue : English

Publié 3 juin 2025 par Del Rey.

ISBN :: 978-0-593-59968-6

(1 critique)

In this swoony sequel to The God and the Gumiho, a trickster god must work with his reincarnated lost love to solve his brother’s murder on board a luxury underworld cruise ship.

Seokga the No-Longer-Fallen is working on himself. Reinstated as a god, the trickster now attends much-needed therapy, even as he desperately searches for his lost love, Hani. But when the red thread of fate tangled around his finger—signaling Hani’s reincarnation—leads Seokga to a luxury cruise down the river of the dead, the woman he finds waiting for him isn’t Hani . . . she’s Yoo Kisa, and she has no memory of him.

Yoo Kisa is exhausted with her afterlife. While she’d hoped the underworld would be peaceful, whoever she was in a past life racked up quite the karmic debt, and now she must pay it, working thanklessly aboard the SRC Flatliner. Even worse, the red thread …

In this swoony sequel to The God and the Gumiho, a trickster god must work with his reincarnated lost love to solve his brother’s murder on board a luxury underworld cruise ship.

Seokga the No-Longer-Fallen is working on himself. Reinstated as a god, the trickster now attends much-needed therapy, even as he desperately searches for his lost love, Hani. But when the red thread of fate tangled around his finger—signaling Hani’s reincarnation—leads Seokga to a luxury cruise down the river of the dead, the woman he finds waiting for him isn’t Hani . . . she’s Yoo Kisa, and she has no memory of him.

Yoo Kisa is exhausted with her afterlife. While she’d hoped the underworld would be peaceful, whoever she was in a past life racked up quite the karmic debt, and now she must pay it, working thanklessly aboard the SRC Flatliner. Even worse, the red thread wrapped around her pinky followed her into the underworld . . . and although her fated partner has found her, he seems to find her lacking.

When the heavenly emperor is murdered aboard the ship, Seokga and Kisa must solve the crime before the cruise ends. As the mystery draws them closer, the god and the gwisin will have to decide what they truly mean to each other. But there’s something bigger at play aboard the SRC Flatliner, something that holds the key to Kisa and Seokga’s fated connection—and the fate of the mortal and heavenly realms.

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Taylor Drew a publié une critique de The God and the Gwisin par Sophie Kim (Fate's Thread, #2)

Not as strong as the author's other work

3 étoiles

Anybody who's read my reviews in the past may remember that I did a NetGalley review of another of the author's books (Reign of the Talons) a few months ago. It was after reading that book that I applied for and received a review copy of this one...and then promptly realized I hadn't read the first book.

I read that book a few weeks ago and I really liked it, and I liked this one too. Unlike the Talons series, this one is marketed for adults instead of being YA. My impressions are that this means more swearing and somewhat more explicit sex. This isn't why I liked this book or the prequel, it just means that it's a bit different and the people who liked the original series should be aware of that.

That being said, I was a bit more lukewarm about this book than I was about …

Anybody who's read my reviews in the past may remember that I did a NetGalley review of another of the author's books (Reign of the Talons) a few months ago. It was after reading that book that I applied for and received a review copy of this one...and then promptly realized I hadn't read the first book.

I read that book a few weeks ago and I really liked it, and I liked this one too. Unlike the Talons series, this one is marketed for adults instead of being YA. My impressions are that this means more swearing and somewhat more explicit sex. This isn't why I liked this book or the prequel, it just means that it's a bit different and the people who liked the original series should be aware of that.

That being said, I was a bit more lukewarm about this book than I was about the prequel or the author's other series. The characters were funny, the mystery was good, and it was really nice to see some resolutions to things broken in the previous book. However, it just fell a little bit flat to me.

It's hard to explain this without really talking about what happens in the book and that's more or less impossible without spoiling a major plot point in the first book, so I don't really want to go into it, but the whole situation just felt kind of rushed. I wasn't as invested in the characters as I was in the previous book or in the Talons series. There was just so much stuffed into so little space that there was a little opportunity to become truly invested. I think this pacing worked really well in the first book because of the cast. But this book just didn't give time to process any of the heavier things for me.

I'm not really sure if there's going to be another book in the series since it seems the author has a completely unrelated book coming out, but if there ends up being another book, I'll probably read it. Seokga's (one of the main characters) awkwardness and passion are something that I really liked and I continue to love the alternating perspectives that Kim has used thus far in all of her books. I just wanted a bit more from this book.

And that's okay. People who have liked her other books will like this one—I did too after all! I'm excited to see what she comes up with next and wishing her all the best. I'm definitely looking forward to her next book.