Pashmina

Pashmina
  By Nidhi Chanani
  Published by First Second

Pashmina stars Priyanka, a young woman who's struggling to find where she belongs in the world and how she feels about her family. When she finds a magic shawl that can show her the future, she tries to find more of its secrets, thus slowly seeing the dense weaving that makes up her family, and how it has been shaped over the years.

This is a good book, nothing spectacular. The main character is fine, but sometimes acts immaturely in a way that seems out of character. The rest of the cast is fine, without anything spectacular, all fading into the background unless information needs to be dumped. The art is okay. It's simple lines and monochrome color pallets, which helps give the scenes with magic more flair, adding color and much brighter lights. The real life myths from Hindu folklore give the book a unique thing that makes it stand out, but that's the only thing that stands out. I've seen similar plots, characters, and art styles. It's still good, but it needs something more if it wants to be better.

7/10