Together, the sisters become a formidable team, and much of the interest of the novel is rooted in their ever-changing and growing relationship. She is an apprentice to a shaman and has a more mystical, even spiritual, approach to the world.
Maewol is, on the other hand, more adventurous and more apt to act on intuition and enthusiastic excitement. She demonstrates both determination and perseverance in her dogged pursuit of various suspects on the island and the clues they provide. Hwani takes after her dad and wants to use a step-by-step and analytical approach to the situation. The estranged girls at first do not get along, but, as time goes on, they realize they need to rely on one another if they are ever to solve this case.
Hwani has been literally and figuratively far away from her sister for some time, and the two are complete opposites. Maewol and Hwani do their best to remember and reconstruct what happened to them in the forest several years ago in the hope that these memories will not only explain their past but will provide the key for finding the many missing girls and, most importantly, finding their father. Detective Min is determined to find out what has happened, and then he vanishes along with the rest. On top of that, 13 more girls have disappeared in the same forest. Hwani and her younger sister Maewol went missing there and were later found in the forest near a particularly gruesome crime scene. Her father traveled to the island of Jeju for a couple of reasons. “But my father always told me to be what I long for the world to be like – to be just, to be fair.”ĭetective Min has gone missing, and his daughter Hwani is determined to find him. I had caught a glimpse of Magistrate Hong’s reality on this penal island. “You are not wrong, sir,” I said quietly. The sooner you learn to accept that, the easier your life will become. No matter how hard you strive to fight evil, nothing will change. And all the while, the path clears easily for those that have evil in their heart. “We live in a world where hardship crushes those who are deserving of better, where obstacles line the path of those who try to do good. “Well, the world is unfair and unjust,” he said, his voice wavering. Maewol was my sister, but she didn’t feel like family. The thought flickered across like a firefly at night. “They say that those who have nothing to lose are the boldest,” I said. He gulped it down and muttered, “You are bold, young mistress.” But when the magistrate continued to remain still as a rock, I said, “Do the girls – the missing and the dead – visit you in your dreams? Asking you for help?”Ī tremor shook his hand as he reached for his bowl of rice wine. “What haunts you, sir?” I asked, remembering that Magistrate Hong had often summoned Shaman Nokyung to help him with his nightmares.
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