A review by octavia_cade
A Bride's Story, Vol. 12 by Kaoru Mori

lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

4.0

I'm back in Christchurch for a few months at the moment, which means that I can plunder the Christchurch public library for this series (generally, my usual small-town library does not run to stuff like this). As always, it was thoroughly enjoyable. The artwork in this series is so beautiful, and so detailed, that it's always a pleasure to look at. And I especially enjoyed the structure, which was very loosely connected chapters on the various characters, who are all separated by vast amounts of geography, but who are all experiencing moments of boredom and are finding small ways to cope with it. I think that's one of the really appealing thing about this series for me: there's such a sustained focus on daily life, where everything's important, no matter how domestic or small-scale. It's very slice-of-life, and that's fascinating to me in a historical story set in a part of the world I've never been to.