Review: Songes Coraline
June 12th, 2007
The bande dessinée Songes Coraline tells the story of a young woman responding to a curious ad for a new maid. When she arrives at the estate of a victorian inventor, she is overwhelmed by the strange apparatuses and devices that greet and surround her, and more than a little confused by what it is exactly that the job entails. The somewhat lusty butler hints that she is to distract the master of the estate from his constant work.
Soon, Coraline finds out that the master is a young boy, at times brusque, at times erudite, but always busy with another invention. The young woman is confident that she will be able to handle the boy, but when she wakes to strange noises at night and finds another world within her wardrobe, things take a turn for the worse.