Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

66 reviews

coincidentally_k's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

1.75

I didn't get this book. I didn't want to finish this book. It was written fairly nicely (given it was a translation) but there were clearly themes and aspects that I just wasn't understanding.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Medical content, Blood, Body horror, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual content, Eating disorder, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Gore, Rape, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Minor: Child abuse and Vomit

risemini's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Sexism

birdafterdark's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Medical content, Mental illness, and Misogyny

Moderate: Infidelity, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Vomit

noxygens's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Murder, Bullying, Body shaming, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Sexual assault, Blood, Misogyny, and Body horror

monserrot's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Violence, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Grief, Sexual content, Sexism, Self harm, Mental illness, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Blood, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Confinement, Body shaming, Animal death, Body horror, Animal cruelty, and Alcoholism

stvalentine's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

such an unsettling novel yet one so full of beauty and sensuality. not an 'easy read' by any means, but a very rewarding one nonetheless. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Violence

lxscrmr's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Animal death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Misogyny, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

madelinequinne's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Rape

madmichele's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

the premise is really intriguing and I loved the commentary on differing from your family/peers as well as your culture/society altogether and I felt that was very strong. the institutionalization aspect of it was even stronger.

it was very character-heavy but the characters felt very hollow, which I found odd. I saw others mention how they wished the story was also told from the perspective of yeong-hye - but I feel like telling the story from her point of view would defeat the purpose of the narrative. the entire point is that she’s an outcast, and that she’s behaving in ways that others find odd and harrowing.

I don’t like when writers switch perspective styles (it starts off in first person, then the final two chapters are in third) - I find it very jarring and distracting.

I also feel like it was too short and could’ve gone more into psychological horror

Spoiler

(i loved the parts detailing her dreams and how she seemed to be photosynthesizing… i know that i wouldn’t have found out why she was doing what she was doing, and i wasn’t too concerned with that. I just wanted to see more of the behavior that terrified her family so much, it was interesting).

  the time jump between the first two stories felt off to me - I think there should’ve been 2-3 short stories in between. 

I did like the story itself, I just had issues with the execution. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Medical content, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Self harm, Sexual content, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

frenchvanillapowdercreamer's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Blood, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Body horror, Sexual assault, Violence, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship