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nelielieliel 's review for:
Cursed Bunny
by Bora Chung
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.