Dokebi Bride Vol. 1 (DOKEBI BRIDE GN)

by Marley Having been born into a shaman family, Sunbi has inherited supernatural powers to see and communicate with spirits just like her grandmother, who was once a notable shaman and savior of their little South Seas fishing village. Sunbi's dark, alienated childhood continues onto a new stage of difficult challenges when she joins her re-married father in Seoul after her grandmother passes away. Now, she has no one to protect her from a universe of Dokebis who tirelessly attempt to seize her body. Alone but determined, she vows not to become a scapegoat of any Dokebi just like her mother who was driven into a doomed end. Now she has to adapt to a whole new environment of the two distinct worlds where nobody, including her distant father - her only family - understands the ultimate reality of her life but herself. Will she give up the fight for the life of her choice and give in at all in the face of dreadful Dokebis?

From Publishers Weekly

This moody, beautiful tale follows the life story of Sunbi Shin, a teenage girl forced to leave her small Korean fishing village after her grandmother's death to live with her estranged father's new family in Seoul. Raised by the grandmother, Sunbi barely knows her father, who abandoned her long-dead mother years before. But Sunbi's colorful past is filled with Dokebis, mischieveous Korean spirits and demons. Like her mother and grandmother, Sunbi can see and communicate with these demons, an ability first manifested at a village ritual that calls forth a dragon to help bring the village a prosperous year. The dragon responds but can only be seen by Sunbi and her grandmother; there we begin to learn the story of a family of spiritual seers, simultaneously respected and feared for their supernatural abilities. Sunbi's spiritual gifts mark her as different, alienating her from adults and from classmates. Marley's b&w drawing of the dragon undulating across the page is breathtaking. Her drawings are crisp, natural and packed with the graphic details of Korean traditional dress and rich in the vivid emotions and mental states of her characters. As Sunbi comes to grips with her grandmother's death and her new family, we're introduced to the mystery surrounding her mother's life and death, clearly setting the scene for much more to come in subsequent volumes.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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