clare_tan_wenhui 's review for:

Marigold Mind Laundry by Jungeun Yun

3.0

emotional hopeful reflective 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

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This latest entry into the genre of "healing fiction" popularised amongst Japanese and Korean is perhaps one of the weaker one. It becomes hard to distinguish between the characters who star as the lead each case study in the anthology, there is lack of effort put into the universe building of the magic realism setting, and the character development of the main protagonist is not set up properly, and reaches its end point in a very baffling manner. The only positive it has is the plentiful motivational quotes peppered in each story, though I'd much rather more effort had been put into plot instead.