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저주토끼 by 정보라, Bora Chung

22 reviews

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Excrement, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Body horror, Confinement, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Vomit, Torture, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Child death, Physical abuse, Murder, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Alcohol

Minor: Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Infidelity, War, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Infertility, Incest, and Rape

skitch41's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

One of the creepiest boos I’ve ever read with quite a few problematic plot devices. However, this is one of the best short story collections I’ve ever read. The quality of the stories never dipped and they always had a unique twist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Confinement, Body horror, Death, Incest, Suicide, Torture, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, and Child abuse

itsme_lucy_hi's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Gore, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, and Animal death

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Murder, Gore, Violence, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Child abuse, Confinement, Pregnancy, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Car accident, Self harm, War, Excrement, Grief, Animal death, Gaslighting, Torture, Suicide, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

Minor: Ableism, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Incest, Vomit, Sexual content, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, and Infidelity

Menstruation ("The Head," "The Embodiment").

gloomiko's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

“Cursed Bunny” es una colección de diez historias cortas supernaturales de horror. Este libro es el debut literario de Bora Chung, una escritora coreana que definitivamente voy a estar hojeando porque quiero leer más de ella. Las historias son muy variadas, aunque todas siguen más o menos la misma fórmula, y al final te acabas esperando algún plot twist. Mis favoritas, en orden:

★★★★★ “The Head.”,

muy buen comienzo, da mucha ansiedad y claustrofobia. No voy a volver a ver mi baño de la misma manera.

★★★★★ “Scars.”,

creo que es mi favorita especialmente porque el comienzo es una buena analogía de traumas infantiles. Es el personaje con el que más he empatizado y la única historia en la que he llorado. Me habría gustado que tuviera un final feliz :(

★★★★☆ “Cursed Bunny.”

muy interesante pero no he llegado a empatizar con la mayoría de personajes. Es una de las más turbias y creo que tiene una buena moraleja. Me ha llamado la atención la frase “when we make our cursed fetishes, it’s important that they’re pretty”.

★★★★☆ “The Embodiment.”

muy turbia, provoca mucha ansiedad. Como mujer, he tenido un nudo en el estómago durante todo el capítulo, es totalmente el tipo de pesadilla que tendría.

★★★★☆ “Reunion.”,

triste desde principio a fin, buen relato para acabar el libro con un nudo en la garganta.b

★★★☆☆ “Snare.”

abuso, incesto… es interesante el tema de la maldición y cómo la codicia vuelve a las personas “inhumanas”.

★★☆☆☆ “The Frozen Finger.”

me dio bastante ansiedad y claustrofobia el imaginarme a la chica hundiéndose en el barro atrapada en su coche sin poder ver nada, pero se pierde un poco entre los otros relatos. También me dio penita, lo último que escucha antes de morir son reproches de la voz que creía que la iba a salvar.

★★☆☆☆ “Goodbye, My Love.”,

también triste, me recuerda un poco a “The Head”. El tema de los IAs uniéndose es interesante pero un poco típico. Además la mc es lesbiana, creo?

★☆☆☆☆ “Ruler of the Winds and Sands.”,

triste, las traiciones son lo que más ansiedad me da :( me dio mucha pena lo que sufre por el príncipe. Vuelve a entrar en el tema de la codicia, pero la porción del desierto es muy larga.

★☆☆☆☆ “Home Sweet Home.”

larga, demasiados personajes sin nombres que se me iban mezclando mientras leía. El final me gustó, fue inesperado y un poco triste, pero el resto de la historia no me entró muy bien.

En general me han gustado todas las historias y me ha abierto la curiosidad por leer más historias cortas, creo que es lo que mejor me viene para lo mala que son mi atención y mi memoria. La ambientación es magnífica, turbia y claustrofóbica.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Incest and Excrement

Minor: Gaslighting

lucacul's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cannibalism, Physical abuse, Violence, and Animal death

studydniowka's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Bardzo dobry zbiór opowiadań lawirujący na granicy fikcji spekulatywnej, realizmu magicznego i horroru. Polecam.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Cannibalism, Car accident, Emotional abuse, and Gore

sevensableyes's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

I really enjoyed this book. It's convinced me to start looking into short story collections. I wasn't expecting the stories to be so creepy, but it wasn't anything I couldn't handle. There was a wide range of settings. I do think 'Cursed Bunny' was the most memorable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Incest, Cannibalism, and Suicide

There are quite a few content warnings, I'm not sure I can recall them all. Definitely body horror, abuse, incest, and character death. I think there was a suicide?

patsybarker's review against another edition

made me feel sick 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Child death, and Emotional abuse

good but yukky

caitlindoesntread's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.25

(Short story collection (10 stories): Horror, social commentary) Read this in four days. It possibly damaged me forever?? Some of the body horror descriptions are so grotesque that I literally felt sick. However, lots of the stories were written beautifully and at each twist I found myself pausing to think about the metaphorical implications or what real-life issue it could have been representing against the backdrop of a strange, scary, magical and suspenseful reality. Some of the stories I really enjoyed are "The Head, "The embodiment", The Frozen Finger" and "Snare". These were short, to the point and gripped me throughout the story. Some stories that I really did not enjoy were "Goodbye, my love", "Home sweet home" and "Ruler of the winds and sands. For the last two that I mentioned, I literally had no clue what was going on, especially in "Ruler of the winds and sands" and they were long, boring and repetitive. I neither liked nor disliked "Cursed bunny", "Scars" and "The reunion". Although "Scars" was WAY too long.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Incest, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Sexual content, Addiction, Alcohol, Car accident, Drug use, Infidelity, and War