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A review by librovermo
A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon
2.0
I love the concept of this book and appreciate the message about climate change Park Seolyeon was trying to convey through the story, but it really fell short for me.
When the FMC finds out she’s a magical girl, she asks if she’s too old, because she always assumed magical girls were girls, and at 29, she’s a woman. But nowhere in the story did she actually seem like she wasn’t a teen. She had a grown woman’s problems (credit card debt, couldn’t find a job, worried about rent), but she could have been a young girl otherwise and I’d have believed it no problem, and I think that’s my biggest issue with the book. Magical girls are usually young teenagers and going into this book, I thought it would be different, more interesting, and maybe even relatable because this magical girl is an adult. But it really wasn’t. The only adult thing this magical girl does is join a union.
When the FMC finds out she’s a magical girl, she asks if she’s too old, because she always assumed magical girls were girls, and at 29, she’s a woman. But nowhere in the story did she actually seem like she wasn’t a teen. She had a grown woman’s problems (credit card debt, couldn’t find a job, worried about rent), but she could have been a young girl otherwise and I’d have believed it no problem, and I think that’s my biggest issue with the book. Magical girls are usually young teenagers and going into this book, I thought it would be different, more interesting, and maybe even relatable because this magical girl is an adult. But it really wasn’t. The only adult thing this magical girl does is join a union.