Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Cabinet by Un-su Kim

29 reviews

ginbat's review

5.0

Maybe I’m being too generous with a 5/5, but even with the ending I’m just a sucker for a strange book, and this book was strange. Villa incognito vibes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Fatphobia, Death, Body horror, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore, Confinement, Body shaming, Excrement, Bullying, and Addiction

Torture at the very end but it’s pretty hardcore:

main character gets his fingers and toes cut off

bullying a gal from the middle and on about her being ugly/quiet/fat

diar's review

adventurous medium-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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

ancestrallizard's review

challenging dark funny reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Bullying, Fatphobia, and Alcoholism

Minor: Misogyny

lindshilde's review

adventurous challenging dark

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Body horror

snowdropdaisy's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment and Fatphobia

Moderate: Mental illness, Body horror, and Torture

courtney_scott1025's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I enjoyed this book! I loved the twists, the writing, the life lessons thrown in. I can't stop thinking about how everyone has a different internal clock and what that means. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Torture, and Blood

lautir's review

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

The start of this book really grabbed me. I thought it was a fascinating concept to work with and enjoy the little stories of each of the characters. The downside is that I had hoped for a more dramatic conclusion, or for something weird-er to be going on. But the ending made sense for the main character and I enjoyed the journey.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror

theladykathryn's review

mysterious medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

eggplantia5's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

I found this a little hard to get started but then I was hooked. I loved the descriptions of the different symptomers - kind of wish there were more. I find that many of the books from Korean authors I've read have main characters who are very unsympathetic and they don't care that they are unlikeable. And while they do grow, it's different from how American or British authors would have a main character grow. 

The ending was a little rushed - I found the torture scene really horrifying despite its relative brevity, and that kind of overwhelmed the ending for me. I wish we understood the role that Jeong-eun had to play a bit more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, Kidnapping, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, and Torture

scifi_rat's review

dark funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

Plot: 3.75★
Prose: 4★
Pace: 4★
Concept/Execution: 4★/4.5★
Characters: 4★
Worldbuilding: 4★
Ending: 3.75★

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Grief, Suicide, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, Medical content, Cursing, Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Blood, Cancer, and Animal death