Each of the 10 short stories traverses horror, folklore, sci-fi and realism often all at once. In short, masterful address of such powerful themes, just not in the style I enjoy most.Ĭursed Bunny is like no book I have read before and to define it's genre would require far more words than the length of this review would allow. It was mostly the poetic feeling it left, and despite the grim ending it made me feel lighter, almost undid how uneasy I felt from some of the previous stories. Many important themes in there as well - but I thought less rationally about it than about The Embodiment. I did enjoy Ruler of the Winds and Sands mostly because it was not unsettling, but it felt like any other fairytale story. The other stories also spoke about very important issues, just not in a voice that resonated strongly with me. Yet I thought just one story was not enough to rate the whole book highly. And even if the second story struck many chords - how whatever you do (or don't do) you will always be at fault, how women are "nothing" without a man, etc. Just not my genre(s) I thought, even if the topics were so strong. And the truth is Cursed Bunny (the whole book) did make me feel a lot.īut because it was mostly unsettling, I've settled for a lower rating before I've finished it. I rate more on how much a book made me feel and think rather than the way it was written. At first I would have given this book less stars.
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