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jamiezaccaria's review against another edition
5.0
A wonderful collection of essays from some brilliant Asian women horror and spec-fic writers.
amethystarchild's review
4.0
Thank you to NetGalley for the digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
“Unquiet Spirit” is a deeply personal and intriguing collection of essays. Across multiple authors you are introduced to a multitude of haunting female ghosts across Asia, ghosts that have found their way into each writer’s life. They symbolize, trauma, tradition, hunger, all of these ghosts reflect the unquiet feelings inside us.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading through these essays and receiving multiple perspectives from a diverse collection of Asian diaspora writers. I learned a lot about the mythology and culture of the different countries, that I’d been totally unaware of before. If you enjoy thoughtful essays and want to read some with an element of the supernatural thrown in, this is the collection for you.
“Unquiet Spirit” is a deeply personal and intriguing collection of essays. Across multiple authors you are introduced to a multitude of haunting female ghosts across Asia, ghosts that have found their way into each writer’s life. They symbolize, trauma, tradition, hunger, all of these ghosts reflect the unquiet feelings inside us.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading through these essays and receiving multiple perspectives from a diverse collection of Asian diaspora writers. I learned a lot about the mythology and culture of the different countries, that I’d been totally unaware of before. If you enjoy thoughtful essays and want to read some with an element of the supernatural thrown in, this is the collection for you.
amethystarchild's review against another edition
4.0
Thank you to NetGalley for the digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
“Unquiet Spirit” is a deeply personal and intriguing collection of essays. Across multiple authors you are introduced to a multitude of haunting female ghosts across Asia, ghosts that have found their way into each writer’s life. They symbolize, trauma, tradition, hunger, all of these ghosts reflect the unquiet feelings inside us.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading through these essays and receiving multiple perspectives from a diverse collection of Asian diaspora writers. I learned a lot about the mythology and culture of the different countries, that I’d been totally unaware of before. If you enjoy thoughtful essays and want to read some with an element of the supernatural thrown in, this is the collection for you.
“Unquiet Spirit” is a deeply personal and intriguing collection of essays. Across multiple authors you are introduced to a multitude of haunting female ghosts across Asia, ghosts that have found their way into each writer’s life. They symbolize, trauma, tradition, hunger, all of these ghosts reflect the unquiet feelings inside us.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading through these essays and receiving multiple perspectives from a diverse collection of Asian diaspora writers. I learned a lot about the mythology and culture of the different countries, that I’d been totally unaware of before. If you enjoy thoughtful essays and want to read some with an element of the supernatural thrown in, this is the collection for you.
kleonard's review
5.0
This is an excellent anthology about fantasy and horror in Asian literature, and how Asian writers today understand, shape, and re-use stories of ghosts and vampires and kitsune in their own work, and how others tap into this wealth of lore as well, using it to grapple with things like diaspora, bigotry, and problematic traditions. The essays are uniformly well-written, and I enjoyed and learned from them.
jackphoenix's review against another edition
dark
informative
medium-paced
4.0
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mackenziedyll's review against another edition
3.0
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC of Unquiet Spirits in exchange for my honest review!
This was an amazing and enlightening read. Unquiet Spirits is a series of anthology stories following 21 Asian women and their connection to folklore, culture and feminism. I am so thankful to these writers for sharing their unique and personal stories. I would definitely recommend this for someone who likes folklore, ghosts, and short stories.
Overall, I give Unquiet Spirits a 3.5 stars!
This was an amazing and enlightening read. Unquiet Spirits is a series of anthology stories following 21 Asian women and their connection to folklore, culture and feminism. I am so thankful to these writers for sharing their unique and personal stories. I would definitely recommend this for someone who likes folklore, ghosts, and short stories.
Overall, I give Unquiet Spirits a 3.5 stars!
kate_fi's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.5
aardwyrm's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
It's hard to assess an essay collection from so many authors, but every piece plays interestingly with its topic, and you'll come away better than you began.
hounded's review against another edition
3.25
I enjoyed this. Hearing all the different stories of peoples lives and how their lived experiences relate back to ghosts and other spirits from their backgrounds. There was one essay that felt very..... transphobic it was really uncomfortable but it was the only one in the whole book like that so I was surprised. But a few essays in the middle were fantastic!!