Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories by Regina Kanyu Wang, Yu Chen

4 reviews

ahoyitsjoy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

2.75

Like a lot of anthologies, there were some stories I enjoyed and some I didn't care much for... and unfortunately, no clear stand-outs (for me). This collection leans more fantasy than sci-fi, and I do think you'll get more out of it as a reader if you're somewhat familiar with Chinese fantasy conventions. I also enjoyed the occasional essays on the subject of writing and translating these kinds of stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Body horror

Moderate: Animal death, Suicide, and Blood

Minor: Bullying, Death of parent, and Child death

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Bullying, Dementia, Sexism, Death, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Misogyny

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Genocide, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

maeverose's review

I read about half of the stories/essays, and just wasn’t really feeling them. I also didn’t understand a lot of them, but that could be a me problem. Here are the ones that I liked the most:

The Restaurant At The End of the Universe: Tai-Chi Mashed Taro by Anna Wu translated by Carmen Yiling

4⭐️ I liked the vibes. Curious about the hitchhiker’s guide references in the beginning.

Minor cw for suicide

The Alchemist of Lantian by BaiFanRuShuang translated by Ru-Ping Chen 3.5⭐️
Cw: illness

Essay: Translation As Retelling: An Approach To Translating Gu Shi’s “To Procure Jade” and Ling Chen’s “The Name of the Dragon” by Yilin Wang

3.5⭐️ cool to see the process behind translating a story.

The Name of the Dragon by Ling Chen translated by Yilin Wang

3.5⭐️

Cw: death, violence, blood, injury

To Procure Jade by Gu Shi translated by Yilin Wang

3.5⭐️

Cw: blood

New Year Painting, Ink and Color on Rice Paper, Zhaoqiao Village by Chen Qian translated by Emily Xueni Jin

3.5⭐️
Cw: missing child, bullying, fire, death

I will say I was kind of expecting more actual non binary representation, I didn’t really see much of that. Also curious how many of the contributors are non binary because all but two use exclusively she/her, and of course pronouns ≠ gender (I’m a genderless she/her after all), but it still doesn’t seem very diverse within the non binary category (And for the two who used she/they, in their bios they only used she/her.. 🤔 to be fair idk if an editor wrote the bios or if everyone wrote their own, I assumed an editor).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Terminal illness

Minor: Suicide and Fatphobia

Manipulation, missing child

szuum's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical trauma, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Misogyny, Child death, Death, and Terminal illness

Minor: Animal death