Reviews - Marigold Mind Laundry

771 reviews for:

Marigold Mind Laundry

Jungeun Yun

3.46 AVERAGE

katiekip's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This was a really beautiful story.

midnightlullaby's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

la__izzy's review against another edition

4.0

emotional inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

indoorg1rl's review against another edition

3.5

Overnight, in the village of Marigold on top of a hill, old Jieun has conjured up a magical Mind Laundry, where she cleanses painful experiences from her customer's hearts. We meet five of Jieun's customers to her laundry: a frustrated young filmmaker; a tortured social-media influencer; a distraught mother; a young woman two-timed by her lover, and Yeonghui, a victim of bullying, who works as a delivery man to escape his pain in routine.

As expected, this was a super easy, feel-good read. The beginning of the book with some back story about Jieun’s childhood threw me a bit because it exuded complex sci-fi vibes and I thought I had judged the book genre incorrectly. However, once we settled into the laundry setting, it was clear that there’d be nothing overly complicated here.

Jieun’s customers had unique challenges and they had different ways of overcoming them, showcasing true diversity of human’s minds. By assisting them, Jieun learned a lot more about life and understanding herself, as she was actually an old soul living in a young body. At the same time, it was interesting that I could see Jieun as an innocent, naive soul who didn’t experience life to the fullest prior to the laundry days.

All in all, this was a comfort read that I devoured in a day or so. I had wished to see the continuation of Jieun’s back story, but I understood this wasn’t meant to be that kind of book. I’d highly recommend this to anyone wishing to ‘switch off’ for a moment and enjoy a surge of positivity.

(Thanks to Penguin Australia for a gifted review copy)

flonew's review against another edition

3.0

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

cris_redondoo's review against another edition

3.5

Tenía muchas ganas de leer este libro desde hace mucho tiempo. Porque solo había oido buenas cosas de este libro, y este tipo de libros de realismo mágico cozy me suelen encantar. Pero creo que me había formado demasiadas expectativas, y el libro pasó sin pena ni gloria. La historia se parecía demasiado a muchas obras que he leído, y aunque es bonito, no es original. Entiendo que si es tu primer acercamiento a la literatura coreana es un libro super novedoso, pero claro para mi no lo es. Así que aunque ha sido mono, no le puedo dar más estrellas.

readingnotscrolling2025's review against another edition

3.75

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Didn’t hold my attention at first, but I returned after a long pause and finished it in an evening. Some beautiful passages. Some more trite and syrupy.