Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

23 reviews

leah_alexandra's review

challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

This was a really strange and beautiful book. I didn’t love it, but I can appreciate it for what it was. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Xenophobia, Death, Violence, Vomit, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Abandonment, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, and Domestic abuse

abithereader's review against another edition

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Pregnancy, Body horror, Blood, and Excrement

mandkips's review

challenging dark 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, and Excrement

Moderate: Gore and Domestic abuse

stevie's review

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, War, Vomit, Violence, Torture, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexism, Racism, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, and Misogyny

julianship's review

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

This is a hard book to review because I'm not sure I really got it. I want to read more of the author's poetry - the book feels like a prose poem, so much so that it's often hard to keep track of who's speaking at any given moment.

I personally had a hard time getting past some of the grosser body stuff in the book, but ymmv. There are parts where I was like "oh my God I love this" and then we'd get to another bit of body horror or shit, and I'd have to disengage again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Excrement, and Physical abuse

sophiibe's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

5.0

felt like every line was breathed out of me, but in such a way that i was gasping for air. depicted inter- generational trauma in such a telling, informative way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

marigo1ds's review

challenging emotional 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Excrement, and Body horror

trixiez's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

Beautiful, visceral, poetic, intimate, mythical.

[b:Bestiary|43297216|Bestiary|K-Ming Chang|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1583336476l/43297216._SY75_.jpg|67187043] is unlike any book I have ever read before, and I struggle with defining its shape and story in a clear, digestible sentence. This was a book that made me think. Made me pause. Made me re-read lines in a whisper just to taste the rhythm of words in my mouth. This is a story about stories, a story about mothers and daughters, a story about growing up, a story of cultural diaspora, a story about love. 

This book is only around 250 pages, but it feels much longer because every word that K-Ming Chang writes is purposeful and carefully chosen. Take your time with this one. Do not feel frustrated if you can only take small bites at a time. Enjoy the taste of it. Let it linger on your tongue.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

starrynight's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Body horror, and Blood

elizabethreading's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Physical abuse, and Vomit