Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

27 reviews

rowanelisa's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

sleepymimimi's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Torture

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

chocolate_pondue's review against another edition

I'm not a general fan of horror so I don't think I was the right audience for this book. A lot of the stories seem gratuitous and a few of them I didn't truly understand. There were a couple that hit me emotionally (

The one with the blood-clot baby, the one with the boy and the crow monster, and the one with the androids

), but other than that, I just became uninterested in it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

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

alexofsuburbia's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

A pesar de que tengo problemas con las colecciones de relatos cortos, he seguido intentando darles oportunidad y por primera vez no me arrepiento. Vi la recomendación de este libro en un vídeo de youtube donde te daban recomendaciones de lecturas con vibes de películas de A24, pausé el video e inmediatamente comencé a leerlo. La verdad es que no todas las historias me gustaron pero sí la mayoría.
Como he mencionado en diferentes reviews, mi problema con este formato es que siempre dejan las historias muy abiertas y sólo parecen ideas sueltas, pero aquí no fue el caso. El misterio forma parte de la narración y el horror que maneja es bastante decente, en varias historias me sentí incomoda y asustada, además de que la autora logra meter diferentes críticas sociales, aunque me habría gustado que se profundizara un poquito más en esto.
El único problema que tuve fue con la traducción. No sé si se deba a que mi idioma natal es el español y en mi cerebro (al estar a la vez traduciendo del inglés) podía sentir que faltaban algunas palabras o que todo estaba muy simplificado, creo que sí le hace falta otra edición para que la narración no se sienta tan cortada. Pero de ahí en fuera todo estuvo bien, es una lectura rápida que te mantiene con intriga, y si son fans de A24 sí creo que pueda gustar. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Violence

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

eena's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

I want this book to be tattooed on my brain, I want this book to be in my funeral

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Death, Incest, Sexual assault, and Suicide