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Lapin Maudit by Bora Chung

37 reviews

magnoliophyta's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This earth we’re currently living in is harsh for women, ya. Particularly for women who live in patriarchal countries with misogyny lingers around the society. 

Some of the stories were heavily themed, disturbing and dark. Not quite enjoyed it myself because of the graphic (gory) details but I wanted to assure you that the writing style itself was a little bit like folklore/myth and you’re going to like it if you like retelling/folklore/myth. Smoothly flowed plots that I couldn’t bring myself to stop despite the uneasiness and distress I’d felt while reading. 

Buddy reading this with Nabilla and well I could say that we’ve got so many interpretations of the stories (even one story had more than 3 interpretations!) we could turn it into a whole essay, a messy and long one at that lol. 

“There was nothing left for me to wait for.

But there I remained, standing in his bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

hellokittikovacs's review against another edition

challenging 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? No

5.0

This book got me out of a reading slump and made me love short story collections. A masterpiece that will keep you up at night and weirdly develop a fear of your toilet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

x_bookworm_x's review against another edition

dark

4.5

Liked all short stories but feel like they should’ve been in a different order. IMO the first two seemed a bit too similar, or explored similar-ish themes. 
I also think there was quite a strong folklore element to quite a few stories, which I liked but I haven’t rlly seen mentioned before. 
Just a note, some of the stories do have some rather effed up content so be warned. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Incest, Miscarriage, and Rape

mmccombs's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

I completely understand why this has made it to the international booker short list! Each of these stories immediately grabbed me by the throat, and just when I thought I knew what was going on/where it was going to go, I’d be jerked in a totally unexpected direction. Despite each story being fairly drastically different in content and style (we’ve got horror, we’ve got fables, we’ve got sci fi!), you can still tell that they’re in many ways linked. They’re all so clever and well written! I really loved all of these stories, but I’d probably say Cursed Bunny and The Head were my favorites. I came for the cover and have stayed for the stories, I could see myself coming back to read these again!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Incest, Miscarriage, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Excrement, and Car accident

Minor: Suicide

cramen_molby's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Blood, and Abortion

bookishcori's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Excrement

Moderate: Death, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Pregnancy

Minor: Ableism

hedsek's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.25

It's difficult to rate this book, as some of the stories were hard for me to understand without understanding their cultural context. Sometimes I felt like I wasn't able to get at any deeper meaning to some of the more gory stories, which left me with the feeling that things were just done for shock value (which is probably wrong). The concepts and ideas in this bundle are really intriguing and some of the stories do get stuck in your head quite a bit because they are so unique and make you uncomfortable for quite some time after reading them.

The first two stories are very gory, and I don't think they give a very good impression of the rest of the bundle so don't stop reading if you dislike those two. The other stories can be gory as well, but I feel like they have more to offer aside from that. 'Snare' (definitely horrifying in its own way) was my favourite, and the last three stories are a good read as well.

I'm personally not really a fan of the writing style as it can get a bit repetitive, but it's also not offensive and it reads pretty easily.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Ableism and War