Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Violets by Kyung-sook Shin

12 reviews

peach_haze's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

sakisreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.5

I absolutely adored ‘Please Look After Mother’, so I had high hopes for this book!

Kyung Sook-shin’s books always being translated by Anton Hur makes me feel so cosy. I loved her note at the end as well, saying how Hur had cried reading the book 🥹 

This definitely was not Shin’s best book; I still have a soft spot for ‘Please Look After Mother’. But I did still enjoy it and enjoyed some of the emotions I sat with during San’s growth. Her tears and her trauma felt very intimate 😳

I would still recommend reading to anyone who’s a fan of Shin’s stories ✨ 3.5 out of 5 stars for me, thank you!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Alcoholism, Grief, Mental illness, and Violence

zoffi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence and Violence

erindb's review against another edition

reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Blood, Stalking, Rape, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail

hannah_cogo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Abandonment, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Sexism, Blood, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Police brutality, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Violence, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, and Rape

eleniphant's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

• An aching slowburn, perfectly captures loneliness and fear of attachment. Especially aspects of queer loneliness that hit
• For all the girls who felt invisible, shy, overlooked, small- this read very personal to me.
• The translation is gorgeously done
• Heartbreaking, check the triggers for the end- narratively makes sense but this is a hard hitting little book.

😭😭😭 in this book when looking up the flower The words in the dictionary before violet was violent and violate … 
Another definition for Violet:

Also used to describe an oversensitive person, a shy person 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Abandonment, Violence, and Animal death

sunflowerwork's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual violence

nileplin's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.75

“I wonder: Is this your first time hearing this cry? This cry, which for centuries was never given an ear, or a means to be heard”
the whole book felt like a hazy memory in the best way possible, i really like the writing style but got bored at times.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Rape

anxiousnachos's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.0

A and delicate novel that I never really quite got into? It’s very reflective and literary, but I struggled to push through it. 

Content warnings: domestic abuse, sexual harassment, rape, self harm, implied suicide, violence 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Rape

helenamarijke's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

This book confused be a lot. For some reason I had grand expectations. It was very slow, very top-layer while still deeply emotional. I was curious all the way through but also got a bit tired of the extreme slow burn and slice of life feel before the twist near the last part. Maybe I should've just read it in one sitting. But even though confusing and a bit tiring at times the ending (or the last third of the book after the twist) for some reason really got me. And the final scene will probably stick with me for a long time. Maybe Oh San's boring daily life was the point in the end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Self harm

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Sexism, Stalking, Alcoholism, and Animal cruelty