Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Walking Practice by Dolki Min

13 reviews

eleos01's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, and Vomit

Minor: Transphobia and Ableism

sarahb919's review

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

A wild, queer story! I found Mumu to be relatable, despite being an alien and serial killer. Their trouble with stairs, their loneliness and desire to be loved, and their frustration with their circumstances were all things I related to and have experienced. I kept hoping they would make a friend but circumstances I suppose I would not allow it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Animal death, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Death, Ableism, Blood, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Bullying and Emotional abuse

melliedm's review against another edition

dark funny reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

What's all this nonsense, you say? Just think of it as the ramblings of a life-form pretending to be human. It won't be that important to you, dear reader.

A strange, intensely evocative novel about the sensation of being alien to the society you live in, discussing concepts like masking, isolation, anxiety, and desire in a package equally relatable and…well, alien. 

Maybe it’s just the autistic, chronically ill, queer in me—but yeah. This one hit home.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Body shaming, Murder, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Gore, Hate crime, and Vomit

Moderate: Fatphobia, Ableism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Transphobia

Minor: Body shaming, Animal death, Excrement, and Dysphoria

hazel_oat's review against another edition

dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Fatphobia, Blood, and Transphobia

catandherbooks's review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective fast-paced

4.5

What a book. What a book!!! Might just have found me a life favorite. Humorous and heartfelt, it's a book I desperately want to give a proper review to, but I can't right now, and maybe I shouldn't anyway because it really is best if you go into it knowing as little as possible. It's so much more than it seems and it surprised me in the most positive of ways. Just what I was looking for. 

Loved the audiobook and narrator! Love the

translator's note

at the end as well (not sure if this counts as a spoiler so I'll mark it as such just in case).

Need a physical copy so bad! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit and Excrement

sleepycaboose's review

adventurous dark fast-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

readingsofaslinky's review

funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Holy bodily hell!! This book is not in fact like squid games unless you are imaging a giant gender less squid playing games with humanity. Yeah, that’s not what you thought, huh? I’d say this gave me more Jamaica Kincaid’s Girl meets Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground meets Kang and Kodos from the Simpsons. Weird, queer, explicit, and thought provoking; I’m glad I was recommended to read this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Dysphoria, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Body shaming, Excrement, and Sexual content

Minor: Fatphobia

scifi_rat's review

emotional funny reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, and Cursing

Minor: Blood and Cannibalism

quirkykayleetam's review

challenging dark emotional reflective

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

4.5

This is not a book for most people.

It is violent and sexual and strange, inviting you to listen to a people-eating alien tell you their most intimate thoughts and actions while hiding and surviving on planet earth.

The experience should be alienating--and sometimes it is.  Sometimes you have to reckon with the fact that you're talking to someone with 3 legs and almost 30 genitals who is unapologetic about who they are.  But I also found myself connecting so closely with the narrator.  They embodied so much of my fear and anger as an invisibly disabled person trying to live in a world where my physical body will always hold me down.

The end of this novella is sudden.  It made me think and think and rethink.

This book shows you the monstrous in yourself and how you have been a monster to others.  If you can handle the content, this is one I highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Murder, Dysphoria, Violence, Body horror, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Stalking, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War

ra22ouille's review

dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

Wowow what a visceral exploration of queerness, ability, sex, gender, and monstrosity. Dolki Min crafted a horrific, disgusting alien that is also tender, beautiful, sexy, emotional, and made me feel such empathy and kindness towards the character. I really loved the limited first person POV and the depth of emotion that the text was able to probe with that perspective. The character was so complex and being in it's head was profound. It not only showed me how they were alienated in our world, but it also alienated me from the society I am home to. The kinship I felt with the alien forced me further outside of humanity and I pondered questions of homogeneity, queer and disabled assimilation, and solopsism in a world where you not only feel alone but are truly alone. Or, at least when you believe that you can only possibly be alone, until perhaps you aren't. How does that challenge your solitude, the solipsistic beliefs that propel your choices and your interior lofe? Truly, truly spectacular. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Blood, Sexual content, Body horror, and Violence