Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

저주토끼 by Bora Chung

45 reviews

splatteredbastard's review against another edition

i’m just so bored. i’m not shocked or disturbed. the stories seem so anticlimactic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Violence, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Alcohol, Child death, Blood, Body horror, and Death

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

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

linalina's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicide, Torture, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Violence, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Antisemitism, Dementia, Incest, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Excrement, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Abortion, Grief, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, War, Kidnapping, and Vomit

frivilous's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Kidnapping, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Suicide, Blood, Body horror, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Car accident, War, Vomit, and Death of parent

keejaymarie02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

3.0

I liked some stories more than others.. some were really slow and tough to get through, which could be due to the translation. Most, if not all, had a message behind the story and were very thought provoking. Some of the stories definitely felt like there were some loose ends that could've been tied up better, but I guess that adds to the mystery of it. Overall, a pretty decent book and I can see myself reading it again, maybe just skipping over my least favorite stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Vomit, Violence, Incest, Gore, Mental illness, Excrement, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Confinement, Body horror, Grief, Death, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

mfrisk's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Out of this collection I enjoyed Goodbye my love, cursed bunny, and the head. The rest of the stories fell flat for me. This collection felt like it didn’t know whether it wanted to go fully into the weird horror and science fiction depths or into a morality tale and therefore for me it didn’t get at either of these areas very well. The translation also I think made some of the stories feel a bit stilted in certain parts though you could usually get at the central themes. Overall I wanted to like this a lot more than I actually did and it took me awhile to get through despite the short length. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Body horror, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Infidelity

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

_rowan_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Child abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Blood, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Vomit, Gore, Torture, and Violence