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Graphic: Body horror, Violence
Moderate: Cannibalism, Stalking, Murder
Minor: Cancer, Pedophilia, Racism, Medical content, Abandonment
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Classism
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment
Minor: Pedophilia, Stalking
None of the characters are really great. They're all very human and flawed.
There is a character who is playing 4d chess with everyone around them and I found it fascinating to read.
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism
Minor: Infidelity
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Pedophilia
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Cannibalism
Oh this was wonderfully creepy and delightfully fucked up.
Ji-won is a fascinating, flawed protagonist. The trauma of her parents divorcing due to her father's infidelity is completely understandable—putting that aside, what makes a seemingly normal person go this far, start craving human eyeballs and actively choosing victims to harvest them from? For a minute I was worried that the story was going to write off her behavior as being a result of a brain tumor, but then she pulls the twist out and throws Geoffrey under the bus and then decides to expand her palate and go after her cheating dad? I mean, good for her.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Racism, Murder
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Sexism, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder
Usually books told from the perspective of an objectively bad person end up being really annoying to get through, yet the way the author wrote Ji-Won was so compelling, and her descent felt very natural. I also love the way the author sprinkled in moments from before the book’s events that hint at the fact that she’s always been a little bit unhinged.
The horror and gore in this book is so well-written and this is probably the only time I’ve ever actually had to walk away from a book while reading it.
Using cannibalism as a way to explore the experience of minorities in America— specifically the power structures in play as a first-gen immigrant woman was so unique and perfect.
Also, I’m never eating cherry tomatoes again.
Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Cannibalism
Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Stalking
Minor: Sexual violence