Go out and see the bigger world
"Do you understand what kind of journey you're about to embark on?" , Faced with the question of evil ~ mo, the girl Cassiopeya is very confused, but she knows that if she wants to help herself, she has to help Hu Kam, the lord of the underworld Hippoba.
After her father's death, the young girl Cassiopea returned to her grandfather's house with her mother. But because of her cousin's insult to her father, her mother's disregard and her life as a maid, Cassiopeya has always lived a very resentful life, she feels that the world is gray, without a trace of color. Until she opened the taboo box at her grandfather's house.
At first, Hu Kam was just a white bone, but soon Hu Kam grew into flesh, missing only an index finger, a left eye, and an ear.
It was Cassiopea's blood that awakened Hu Kam, and a bone of Hu Cam was also embedded in Cassiope's body. This bone will slowly take away her life force, unless this bone is removed. But Hu Kam couldn't do it, because his body was not yet complete, and neither was his jade necklace. Only by having them can he become the same person he is again. And Cassiopeya must also stay with him, otherwise he will die a tragic death.
So, Cassiopeya followed Hu Cam on a journey to find her body. And the dialogue at the beginning of the article is their first stop, a devil's question when Hu Kam is looking for physical clues. Indeed, for the teenage girl, helping Hu Kam is helping herself.
The God of Jade takes place around 1925 in Mexico, and the book introduces a lot of Mexican folklore and the history of the time. To put it simply, women at that time had a very low status, and if they had a little unorthodox behavior, they would be pointed at. The social environment and the living environment of her grandfather's house made Cassiopeya angry and powerless, and she often dreamed, "dreaming of swimming at night, dreaming of dresses embellished with sequins, dreaming of clear skies full of stars", she longed for escape, longed for freedom.
And Hu Kam's arrival gave her a chance to escape.
For her, who has never been far away, this is a journey of the brave and a journey of healing.
In addition to recovering his lost body, Hu Kam also has to reclaim the throne that was stolen by his brother. So the journey was not destined to be peaceful. Although this journey is full of dangers, Cassiopeya and Hu Cam get along warmly, one person and one god redeem each other, help each other, and the two are still in love. At the end, while resurrecting Cassiopeya and removing his bones from her body, Hu Kam writes, "He once fell slowly and quietly in love, a quiet love, full of unspoken words and adorned with dreams", and after the return of divinity, the book wrote, "Hu Kam bowed his head to her as a commoner, not a master". It is really beautiful, romantic and full of tragedy, God and man are not destined to go together.
The plot of Cassiopea and cousin Martin in the book is also very interesting, when he was still at his grandfather's house, Cassiopea resented Martin's unreasonableness, rudeness, and bullying, and Martin was inferior and jealous because of Cassiopea's ability, especially after hearing that his grandfather was a pity that Cassiopeya was not a boy, he also thought about reconciliation, but still screwed up. After that, the two reconciled, and what happened in the middle will not be recounted one by one. It can only be said that tolerance is a beautiful quality, and after seeing the larger world, some grudges and hurts can be laughed off.
There are a large number of Mayan myths involved, including the underworld hippoba, the cave collapse well (representing the entrance to the underworld), twin gods, twin heroes, the middle world, the creation myth "Popol Ujing", caimans, etc., which is a very novel experience for readers who are not familiar with Mayan mythology and Mexican culture.
"The answer is always in the present", I like this sentence at the end of the book, maybe fate is unfair, but you still have to go forward.
On the whole, the story of the book is very strong, and the text is also very beautiful, which will surprise readers who like fantasy literature and niche culture.
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