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This was pretty cute.
It reminded me of the midnight library, but with the wished for lives being shown as someone else‘s experience rather than your own.

At the start of the rainy season, humans with a ticket can visit the rainfall market, a place where dokkaebi live and sell their wares, and where for a small purchase you can swap your old life for the life of your dreams.

This was my #DoubleSpin this month

Now for some Korean fantasy with my sun-loving little buddy. THE RAINFALL MARKET isn‘t bad, but it‘s the kind of story I prefer on the screen. If this were a drama, I‘m sure I‘d be chuckling away at the big personalities and delighting in all the quirky Dokkaebi shops. As it is, I‘m reading straight-faced.

This short, cozy fantasy read like a children's story. I'm not sure it was best served by having been marketed for adults. It was a little too sunshine for me, but it had its funny moments.

It was the premise of the rainfall market itself that drew me in - an invitation to go to a magical market to try and find your dream life… say less. It made me think of the Magic Faraway Tree.

I really enjoyed the magical realism elements, and the shopping component of the market but it‘s marketed as as adult fiction but really read as something more on the younger side of the YA scale. Which is fine, but adjust your expectations accordingly.

I‘m not having luck with the last few “feel good” fantasy books.

Trying to get back to normal a bit, so I've planned myself a lot of reading time today. Finished this off at last -- it's a very quick read, and does feel kinda middle-grade/YAish, though I think the translation is doing some of that.

Mostly, the plot itself is a little simplistic and the conclusion more or less inevitable.

Sweet

I ended up enjoying this cozy Korean fantasy novel but it was a bit more cliche than I had hoped in some ways. A young girl goes to a magical market to change her life but none of the possible futures she sees seem to turn out as well as she'd hoped. Not only that, but a thief if plaguing the marker. Along with her magical cat companion Issha, Serrin will have to decide what exactly it is she's looking in life.

A bit of magic, a lot of love. There were a few too many characters and the plot felt a bit flat, the ending rushed. Still, it was a unique world and had moments of humor and flair. Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for a digital ARC.