Scan barcode
A review by goldenelegy
Marigold Mind Laundry by Jungeun Yun
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
this story centers around jieun who possess magical powers to sense empathy and make wishes come true. one day she loses her parents and have to go through countless rebirths to find them. in one particular life, she decides to open a laundry service that can erase people's painful memories. and so people come with their own problems they want to forget and fix. friendship then emerges between jieun and those visitors.
i found jieun's conversations with the visitors quite interesting and thought-provoking. they discuss the bitterness of life as well as how one gets through hardships in life. but actually story-wise, im more interested with the friendship dynamics between her and the visitors. i also love how each visitors gets to rethink if they really want to erase their painful memories and each person ends up having different decisions about it.
there's something i still don't understand, though. there is this one character's background that remains mystery to me. the author doesn't explain it until the end of the story. i wonder if the author left it like that on purpose or i just failed to understand it.
i found jieun's conversations with the visitors quite interesting and thought-provoking. they discuss the bitterness of life as well as how one gets through hardships in life. but actually story-wise, im more interested with the friendship dynamics between her and the visitors. i also love how each visitors gets to rethink if they really want to erase their painful memories and each person ends up having different decisions about it.
there's something i still don't understand, though. there is this one character's background that remains mystery to me. the author doesn't explain it until the end of the story. i wonder if the author left it like that on purpose or i just failed to understand it.