Reviews

Your Utopia: Stories by Bora Chung

aarousseau's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective fast-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? N/A

4.0

violents's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

comfynight's review against another edition

DNF @ 71%
Every story left me with a bland 'thats it?'.. Yeah thats it

nairijan's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

A stellar collection, Your Utopia is a wonderful mixed bag of speculative short stories for the modern age. Bora Chung completely delivers with original impactful works about humanity and its relationship to technology. My favorite stories were “A Very Ordinary Marriage” and “A Song for Sleep”

tallgurl's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

stubbornbones's review

adventurous challenging dark funny medium-paced

5.0

Now THIS is good sci-fi! The first couple stories were just ok for me, but several of the later ones in the book were so original and interesting, I’ll be thinking about them for a long time. The twists were never what I expected them to be and I appreciated the variety and nuance of narrators, especially the focus on older women which I wish there was more of in fiction.

natked's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

Unlike "Cursed Bunny" this collection was completely unremarkable. Although it was a combination of my favourite things: weird/sci-fi/dystopia most of the stories were bland save for the plot twist in the last half page, which seemed like a cheap trick.

Other stories had potential but would have been better if the author decided to develop them into full novels.

Overall it left me unsatisfied.

kapatin's review against another edition

4.0

favs from this collection:
“The End of the Voyage.”
“A Very Ordinary Marriage.”
“A Song for Sleep.”

roseyu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.0

zari504's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.75