Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Sopa de miso by Ryū Murakami

65 reviews

leosmoon's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

The part between the climax and the ending made apparent how much he over explains what is happening. The dialogue or rather the story that Frank would tell was so drawn in but it would cut to keinji making a commentary about Japanese culture and that felt disjointed from the book. That hindered the flow of the story 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Trafficking

Minor: Animal death

samdoucette's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Rape

harleyqueen's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Kenji is hired by Frank to tour him around the red light district of Tokyo but with murders happening close by who Is frank really and what are his desires?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

orizenda's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No

4.5

This review may contain spoilers? I’m just going to kind of say what I think the point of this book is, because I’m not sure I fully get it. But I’m trying to make sense of it. To me it seems like a commentary on how we treat other people. In all kinds of ways. Frank is a foreigner-the word gaijin comes up a lot, i’m not sure if something is lost on me here as a stupid american- a foreigner in just about every way possible. He’s a foreigner in Japan, obviously, he makes himself unknown to those around him through the lies he tells, if we’re to believe his backstory, he was an outsider to his family and shunned from his hometown. He even became a foreigner to his own body (if we believe his story, which, as we get it through Kenji, he believes it anyway). I’m not entirely sure what to make of the graphic violence or a myriad of other things. I don’t want to take up too much space here though, and I fear I already have.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child abuse, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Death of parent

autumnnraynnn's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

erin2802's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

3.75

Horrifying and gruesome are good words to use, especially one part in particular. A commentary on the loneliness of regular people and their moral ambiguities. Frank is a terrifying character and the calmness and stoic nature of him makes him all the more creepy. Kenji is no saint either, he did not do the things that Frank did, but he was complicit in his actions. Though after experiencing something so traumatic, I don’t know what anyone would do, I suppose it was a matter or survival? All in all, an interesting book, it did what it set out to do, which is to horrify and intrigue the reader. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

liamowens24's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

sydneylount's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm and Xenophobia

joelle99's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I have mixed feelings about this but I kind of liked how it deviated from the normal pace of a thriller. I liked the social and psychological themes explored from the angle of night life in japan. However, this book still falls into misogynistic tropes and is still a patriarchal point of view despite the author clearly trying to criticise the objectification of women in sex work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

kozumethan's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Gaslighting