OLDER WOMEN YURI!!!!!!!!!
soooo moody and atmospheric! i love historical works and collage so this was such a treat to read. the prose naturally plunges me into the time and place; i immediately started reading in a prairie accent in my mind like a good early 1900s novel.
the collages are masterfully done; i especially like the newsprint filter treatment used. i also really liked the little “vignette” pages that split up the chapters and further set the scene. i really really like the box indicators for who’s speaking! i haven’t seen that before but it works really well for the style, and i could see it from my periphery while reading the text box.
i do think it would benefit from a little more foley or sound effects indoors in some scenes, but it being mostly silent made it easy to focus and read. the library of congress would likely have a very fitting public domain song for the menu or something.
since i was playing on instant text, the {nw} tag made me skip a couple lines where characters got cut off as a heads up!
absolutely lovely and engaging read, will be recommending to friends!