"Bird of Misfortune" by Lada Kutuzova is an exciting fantasy about a dangerous journey for living water! Fedor is young, in love, the wind whistles in his ears, and behind his back sits the best girl in the world— and they race down the highway on a scooter, happy and free… An accident shatters happiness in a single moment. Alena is in a coma, and her life hangs by a thread. Fedor saved her only with a drip infusion of dead water. Dead water is obtained in Zaruche—a/an anomalous zone in Vologda Oblast, full of mermaids, forest spirits (leshaks), and other unclean beings. The road there is open only to specially prepared “walkers,” and even those disappear there without any big problem. But, they say, there you can find living water too! And it is precisely living water that is needed to save Alena—neither dead water nor anything else will help. Fedor must go deep into a forest teeming with otherworldly entities to bring his beloved back to life, who is dying because of his fault.