Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Kink: Stories by R.O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell

16 reviews

travelseatsreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-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? No

3.0

According to to the blurb 'Kink' is an anthology of literary short fiction based on love, desire, BDSM, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold new vision. This book is brimming with heavy hitting well known and accomplished authors so I was really excitied to read something fresh and enthralling. Unfortunately in this case the more well known authors sections were the ones that fell flat and lacked development. Yes, they look at various aspects within the kink world. However, disappointingly, do so at a very basic and dare I say it vanilla level. 

There are some absolute gems there and I particularly enjoyed the pieces by Carmen Maria Machado, Brandon Taylor, Larissa Pham, Peter Mounford and R.O. Kwon. Overall this is a decent read, however I feel would have been much improved by showcasing perhaps lesser known authors who have a deeper understanding of the world and how to convey it rather than just going with the well known heavy hitters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, and Blood

psi_fi's review against another edition

dark emotional relaxing medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Body shaming, Deadnaming, Incest, Infidelity, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Stalking

invaderlinz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

3.5

I enjoyed almost every story but the last, some more than others - as is the way with a lot of short story collections. I think it’s a solid collection, but not as out there as I had expected from all of its hype. I did really love reading these stories from authors I’ve found over the past few years, and seeing them write in a totally different way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Deadnaming and Incest

naturemamareads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

3.0

Whoa Im vanilla! amazing writing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, and Excrement

bookmarkedbya's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Incest and Blood

caseythereader's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Deadnaming, Drug use, Gore, Incest, Self harm, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Blood