Reviews

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

pjlovesyou's review

challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

2.75

the second half of the book was better. I liked the long stories more

vixenreader's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

The translation from Korean to English is a bit off at times. However, that does not dim the bizarre beauty of this collection. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Pregnancy, Blood, Gore, Ableism, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Classism, Abortion, Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Excrement, Sexism, Violence, Death, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Medical content, Cannibalism, Mental illness, Misogyny, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infidelity, Gaslighting, Bullying, Physical abuse, Rape, Emotional abuse, Incest, Sexual assault, Grief, Kidnapping, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Miscarriage, Vomit, Stalking, and Suicide

Be aware that there is characters slowly dying, hunger, starvation, c-sections, blood clots, mob violence, financial struggles, mentions of Nazism, and destruction of cities and families.

_delia's review

challenging mysterious tense

Normally short story collections are a miss for me, and this one almost was, but I’m really glad I kept going. The Head was so disgusting, but I know I will be thinking about it for awhile. 
The Head, Goodbye my Love, Scars, and Ruler of the Winds and Sands were my favorites!

lisa_brg's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

jennykre's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

angelatian30's review

4.0

Really more of a 3.5 star due to the uneven quality of stories for me. This collection really starts out with bangers, but the last few stories really laid flat and lost the horror/ plot twist charms the book had in the beginning.

The head was shocking yet darkly humorous and it set up the expectations that the rest of the collection would continue on this path, but it was more of a down hill ride.

If I had to rate all the stories in order, it’d be 1-6/4-2-3/5-7-8-9-10

Though the experience fluctuated, I still bought Bora Chung’s second book and look forward to it, though cannot lie that it kind of affected my feelings going into it. Hope the SF genre of that one would pick up.

badlucklaura's review

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

abzoor's review

2.0

really did not like this book :(

martynaneo's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

sincerelymendacious's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0