Reviews tagging 'Death'

Walking Practice by Dolki Min

17 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

shellan's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cannibalism, Body horror, Sexual content, Gore, Excrement, and Violence

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

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

ethnographchic's review

challenging dark funny fast-paced

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

4.25

This book is disgusting in a way that only queer science fiction can manage to be. Its vivid descriptions of body horror made me physically recoil, at the same time I found myself delighting in some moments of the narrator playing jury judge and executioner. There are a lot of angles this book can be examined and it is if nothing else very interesting. I do think some of the poignancy and existential musings does get overshadowed by the ridiculously vivid depravity.  Personally I don’t really like sci-fi or super violent books, but despite that I got through this very quickly and would recommend to anyone who wants something a little off beat 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Cannibalism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder, Ableism, and Rape

signeskov's review

dark mysterious medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Blood, Sexual content, Body horror, Death, Fatphobia, Excrement, and Gore

Moderate: Body shaming and Sexual harassment

foolishyetdangerousbooks's review

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Cannibalism, Body horror, Hate crime, Murder, Blood, Death, and Excrement

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