Showing posts with label maiden of the needle. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 14, 2023

Holiday Review #14: MAIDEN OF THE NEEDLE

There's all sort of female-led fantasy stories to choose from these days, isekai or otherwise.  Sadly they can't all be good, though. 

MAIDEN OF THE NEEDLE (Hariko no Otome), based on the light novels by Zeroki and character designs by Miho Takeoka, with art by Yuni Yukimura.  First published in 2019 and first published in North America in 2023.



PLOT:

For as long as she could remember, Yui could always see fairies.  She used her innate sewing skills to mend their appearance, but that wasn't enough to impress her wicked, imperious family.  When she showed no talent for their particular brand of magical weaving, they locked her away, worked and beat her like a slave, and kept her at the edge of starvation.  It was only after she was sold to the handsome nobleman Rodin that her true talents could shine.  Not only can she see fairies, but she can use their magic to seal powerful magic into her sewing.  That will come in handy as her skills attract the attention of both the abdicated king as well as her former birth family.