Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

アーモンド by Won-pyung Sohn

116 reviews

nataleaf's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I did in fact cry. This evoked quite the emotional response

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death

polyglotbookworm's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really liked the development of the protagonist. Quite nice portrait of a portion of the Korean society.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

caseadrift's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood

lilybear3's review against another edition

4.5

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was a good audiobook, if you choose to listen.  I thought the balance and dynamic between one character who has extreme emotions with one that feels nothing was interesting.  The ending was nice and wrapped any loose ends.  I loved the almond symbolism and candy (that specific one mentioned) metaphor throughout, it fit the story quite well.  I wanted to see more of Dora (sp? again, audiobook) and Yunjae's friendship.  Seeing some other reviews, I would've liked to hear the translator's notes because it sounds like it had an impact.  I loved the translation as it was simple, yet emotional.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse, Child death

milaju's review against another edition

4.25

challenging fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment

sarahclaire's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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"𝑳𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒆, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒏𝒐𝒓 𝑰 𝒏𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒄."

This story is first and foremost about empathy and about being human.

We follow the young Yunjae who has a alexithymia, a brain condition leading to an inability to feel and identify emotions. We get so see him navigating through his childhood into his early adulthood while wondering if feeling nothing might be a curse or a blessing.

As a psychology major I'm obviously extremely interested in human behaviour and the big 'why' behind it.
While following Yunjae as he learns about life and the (mostly unspoken) rules of society, I found myself wondering about the complexity of emotions and the etiquette of expressing them. 

It seems impossible to have a story being told through the eyes of an emotionless narrator and it still being absolutely full of tenderness and emotion but this book did exactly that.
I'm sure it's because of the soft but direct writing style of Sohn Won-Pyung and the english translator Sandy Joosun Lee. 

I really enjoyed stepping into this story and although Yunjea has to deal with many extremely devastating incidents (please look up trigger warnings!) I couldn't help but feel hopeful after finishing it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death

dealogues's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Hate crime

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death

rudychleb's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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szybko się czyta, rozdziały są krótkie, przez co akcja też szybko mknie do przodu. jest pierwszoosobowa narracja, pisane jako forma jakiegoś dziennika głównego bohatera.
ciężkie tematy są poruszane, bardzo graficzne opisy przemocy wobec ludzi i zwierząt, momentami ciężko się czytało.
pierwsze 160 stron mi się podobało, ale ostatnie 60 stron... miałam wrażenie, że wszystko za szybko się zmienia. i końcówka w ogóle mi się nie zgrywa, na przestrzeni 5 stron 5 różnych wątków się domknęło i zakończyło happy endem, ale przez to że wydarzyło się to nagle i tak szybko, nie odczuwa się zbytnio szczęścia z tego powodu. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Physical abuse, Medical content, Toxic friendship

abibliophobic_nerd's review against another edition

3.25

dark hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I see why 남준 and 윤기 liked this book. I see both of them in it. Should have written the review sooner though, my links are starting to blur but again it was still interesting to see, throughout my reading, two of my favorite people “reflected” in this story.

 Contrary to what I heard from some people, I thought the author did a good job of telling a story through someone who cannot feel emotions without making it seem lifeless. Not the most memorable book but still one that will stick with me, I think.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

starlit_pathways's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail