Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

저주토끼 by Bora Chung

99 reviews

seawarrior's review against another edition

dark reflective

5.0

The stories held within Cursed Bunny are blisteringly cruel and terribly beautiful. They are horrors, myths and fairytales that reflect the sharp teeth of grief and the scars of survival. I have never read anything quite like these stories and could never imagine one similar to them if I tried. Chung is a brilliant writer and inventor of fables, and I look forward to reading more of her work. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Confinement, Gore, Physical abuse, and Torture

Minor: Child abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Rape, Suicide, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

zahliajayne's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

poempelnator's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Dark and twisted short stories with some fiction, some feminism, some feces, some torture and a lot more.
And (for me) lots of horror (like really body horror right on the first short story) and that's not fully my jam. 
I found some story's amazing and others really not, but overall interesting. So 3.5 is the middle ground for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Miscarriage, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Car accident, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

pancakes_alison's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Honestly this collection of stories was so good, I absolutely loved how well written/translated it was. I loved how I was able to release almost every emotion while reading this, I love how it makes you think and imagine things you never thought you would. 

This book has made me become a fan of dark fantasy realism  short stories. I fell in love with this book as soon as I read the first line of the first story ‘The Head’. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Incest, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Car accident, and Abandonment

metanav's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Child death, Incest, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Murder, and Pregnancy

laffi's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Incest, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

whitne_ey's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Incest, Misogyny, Blood, Car accident, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide

angela_iseli's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Sexual assault, Suicide, Excrement, Car accident, and Pregnancy

laurel616's review against another edition

I read through the first two stories, and I definitely think that if you can handle the body horror this will probably be a great read.  However - I cannot so I am putting this one down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Misogyny and Vomit

zeegy's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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 can tell part of this book has a bit of a cultural wall I can't break through. Some stories shined regardless of that but others felt like a story told to me in passing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Incest, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, and War