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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
This book made me more emotional than I expected it to, especially the story Reunion (as someone who struggles a bit with being stuck in the past, myself) . My only complaint is about the binding of my physical copy 😅 I purchased the UK cover new (CPI Group binding) and after reading a few chapters, a chunk of pages came detached from the binding glue. Not ripped, just detached. They were like the undercoat of a shedding dog, just held in place by the tension of the surrounding hair (or in this case, pages). I can see some other pages wanting to come loose too. It's such a shame, because the cover is beautiful and it's a book I'd like to hang on to and possibly reread. I guess I'll have to order some bookbinding glue.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide
I had a bit of a problem reading halfway through this book. I enjoyed reading most of the stories. It’s true, it’s quite unsettling reading this but it has an incredible writing and translation in it.
My favorite story: Snare
My favorite story: Snare
challenging
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
fast-paced
mistura realismo mágico e horror? sim. mas também reflete a humanidade nos seus amores, medos e necessidades mais básicas. uma espécie de contos de grimm para adultos, no melhor sentido possÃvel.
challenging
dark
It's horror!!!!!!! couldn't finish some of the stories bc I got the heebies and the jeebies but excellent otherwise
Boring, not freaky enough. I'll have to say that most if not all the stories have intriguing beginning, but always fall flat, either through the anticlimatic twist or simply the execution being lacking.
It took me a long time to finish it so I don't really remember the specifics of what I think about the earlier stories... but I liked the premise of The Head and Embodiment, and remember feeling like... that's all?
Goodbye, My Love is another that's sooooo my alley but instead of leaning to psychosexual romance Chung decided to lean on the sudden technology fake deprecation culture commentary... which is also my issue with some of her other stories with obvious commentaries because she seemingly hasn't figured out how to do it while still making her horror stories fun!
My issues with Scars is: 1) the whole charm of the story is that we are trapped in MC's POV where he doesn't know who he is, but everyone else does. Commit to that and make it dialogueless!! What is this!! It would make a good exercise as Chung relies a lot on dialogues for expositions... which is exactly the problem is because somehow the whole reveal is done via exposition bomb... while MC's whole problem is inability to communicate! Did he learn along the way? It takes me out whenever any dialogue happens. 2) What is that reveal? lmao
I can't say I care about the rest of the stories to have any opinions about them.
I do wish I could read Korean so I could tell if I just found the proses to be boring or it's just a subpar translation... but oh well.
It took me a long time to finish it so I don't really remember the specifics of what I think about the earlier stories... but I liked the premise of The Head and Embodiment, and remember feeling like... that's all?
Goodbye, My Love is another that's sooooo my alley but instead of leaning to psychosexual romance Chung decided to lean on the sudden technology fake deprecation culture commentary... which is also my issue with some of her other stories with obvious commentaries because she seemingly hasn't figured out how to do it while still making her horror stories fun!
My issues with Scars is: 1) the whole charm of the story is that we are trapped in MC's POV where he doesn't know who he is, but everyone else does. Commit to that and make it dialogueless!! What is this!! It would make a good exercise as Chung relies a lot on dialogues for expositions... which is exactly the problem is because somehow the whole reveal is done via exposition bomb... while MC's whole problem is inability to communicate! Did he learn along the way? It takes me out whenever any dialogue happens. 2) What is that reveal? lmao
I can't say I care about the rest of the stories to have any opinions about them.
I do wish I could read Korean so I could tell if I just found the proses to be boring or it's just a subpar translation... but oh well.
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No