The God and the Gwisin

By Sophie Kim

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593599683
• ISBN13: 9780593599686
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Random House Worlds
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Love this so much!

It is so good to get another book with Seokga and Hani, fate threaded together! But of course it isn't going to be easy for this trickster god or former gumiho known as the Scarlet Fox. Somehow they were not able to meet, even with Seokga following the thread everywhere and not finding Hani. I love that we get a new setting in the underworld, on a cruise ship for the dead. And while I miss Hani, Yoo Kisa is a really fun Gwisin and former shaman with interesting friends like a kpop star, and reunited with old friend Somi. You get tons of humor (especially with a very intriguing fate thread), laugh out loud bits (quite the risqué book club) but also so many feels! And they played with my emotions, from the depression that Seokga feels trying to find Hani and finding her as Kisa instead, realizing it doesn't matter the form of people, as long as the soul remains the same, finding new common grounds, plus solving the murder of Seokga's brother and dealing with heavy family issues among the gods. And a super cute floating magic baby! Yes, it is totally a kdrama type of story but I love it and I will forever root for Seokga and Kisa though I really want to read the next book! Or maybe I can check out the lates articles in the Godly Gossip, at least until we get a third fate thread book that will answer all the rest of the mysteries surrounding it and Seokga and Kisa!