Haven't read the book, and this is just bits & pieces I've heard over time (like you said, the project's been rumored forever), but it sounds more tragic and fantasy-like than SKKS. By the time the young king crosses path with the shaman (on a moon-lit night obviously), he's already had his heart broken when the woman he wished would be chosen as his consort (the sister of his tutor) died of illness. And it's only when he falls himself to some illness that the shaman's introduced to the palace and he meets her again, but she can't come forward so he doesn't realize who she is. (Echoes of The Little Mermaid.) Then there's a number of subplots of his bodyguard in love with the same woman, his elder half-brother who fell for the late not-fiancee, his sister pining after his tutor... and they're all apparently doomed, doomed, doomed.
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Date: 2011-10-20 12:24 am (UTC)