Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

83 reviews

issymaae's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Pregnancy, Incest, and Suicide

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.

juniper_reads_things's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Well dang. 
This book is like a fresh mix of horror short stories and modern fairy tales. I liked this. It’s grotesquely traumatizing. 
I’m going to list the table of contents and list my individual ratings there.
1). The Head. 
Nicname: Toilet Baby.
 1 star rating, 9/10 for traumatizing. 
It was gross, I hated it. I really love the author’s writing style though. This was one of the tales that felt like a modern fairy tale, because something weird was happening, the woman told her family about it and they didn’t think she was insane. 
2). The Embodiment. 
Nicname: blood clot birth control. 
3 star rating, 1000/10 for traumatizing. 
Woman takes 6 months of birth control, finds herself pregnant because she took birth control…wrong?  This is a perfect story to describe what it’s like to be a woman. You’re trying your best, but it’s not working and somehow you’re single handedly ruining everything around you. 
3). Cursed Bunny.
Nicname: none
3 stars, 3/10 trauma. 
 I didn’t have a made up title for this one, it was pretty memorable, if not super remarkable/traumatic.  This one was a little predictable and wasn’t what I would expect from the title story in a book of traumatizing stories. 
4). The Frozen Finger. 
Nicname: swamp crash. 
10/10 stars, 0/10 for traumatizing. 
This is my perfect horror story. Didn’t see where it was going, dramatic reveal, scary times for me. This one was probably my favorite. 
5). Snare
Nicname: animal/child abuse for gold 
4 stars, 10/10 traumatized. 
This was another one that felt like a modern fairy tale for me, in terms of animal abuse and child abuse. It’s there, it’s awful, but the author doesn’t dwell on it. Feels like a brothers grim tale. 
6). Goodbye, my Love
Nicname: i love robots
2 stars, 5/10 traumatic. 
Traumatic ending, but I was bored during this story the most. 
7). Scars
Nicname: i escaped a dragon for this??
5 stars, 7/10 trauma. This story is great, felt like another fairy tale. I loved it. 
8). Home Sweet Home
Nicname: ghost building
4 stars, 3/10 traumatic. 
Another great horror story, no notes, super creepy. 
9). Ruler of the Winds and Sands 
Nicname: the princess and the heavy lifting or all that for fucking nothing. 
5 stars, 2/10 traumatic. 
Another classic fairy tale vibe, i loved it, no notes. 
10). Reunion. 
Nicname: oh shit
3 stars, 4/10 traumatic 
This story is traumatic in that it beautifully describes generational trauma, childhood trauma ans how adults cope with their own childhood trauma. This one felt personal for me, having survived some shit myself, and it felt comforting and heartbreaking all at the same time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Incest, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Medical trauma

v_verdesoto's review

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Excrement, Infertility, Pregnancy, Death, Blood, Body horror, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual content

the_other_yvonne's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Body horror, and Incest

shewouldstay's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Excrement, Pregnancy, Suicide, and Car accident

fox_at_the_circus's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

The short stories in this book are a really nice mix of magical realism, fantasy, scifi, horror. I enjoyed how every story brought you to its own world with its own characteristics. 
The different stories all adress and discuss trauma each in their own way and metaphors and within their genre, it was a really good read. I also appreciate, that in "Reunion" the narrator actually mentions trauma and what it does/can do to people. I don't see this direct mention a lot in horror stories, and it was a nice surprise while fitting into that story well. It also was a nice conclusion to the book, summarising the theme of this book at the end.
My favourite stories of this collection are "The Frozen Finger" for it's pure horror vibes that unfold throught the story, and "Scars" for main character and the growth he goes through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Child death, Suicide, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Medical content, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Dementia, Car accident, Death of parent, and Incest

niamphoone's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Miscarriage, Gore, Grief, Child death, Blood, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Excrement, Medical content, and Self harm

aliteracja's review against another edition

dark reflective

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Incest and Pregnancy

thomasdingemanse's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Murder, Body horror, Miscarriage, Blood, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Animal death, Death of parent, Sexism, Abandonment, Medical content, and Car accident