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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.
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.
kleonard's review against another edition
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
dark
informative
medium-paced
4.0
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mackenziedyll's review
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!
aardwyrm's review
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
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!!
roxxie's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
3.0
When I first started reading it, I had no idea what to expect. I try to start every book without many expectations, this way I can't really get too disappointed. This companion connects Asian mythology to the lives of Asian Horror/Ghost Story Writers in a series of intensely personal and emotional essays rather than simply a collection of ghost stories. Which I actually hoped for.
It was interesting reading about the background of all those ghost stories, which always star a female ghost. But unfortunately, I don't really know all those stories which were marked. Or maybe I did hear of some of them, but just a slightly different version. As it is with all kind of mythological creatures, every culture has them in a slightly different version.
It was quite interesting reading about the writers' backgrounds, but nevertheless I hoped for more ghost story time.
It was interesting reading about the background of all those ghost stories, which always star a female ghost. But unfortunately, I don't really know all those stories which were marked. Or maybe I did hear of some of them, but just a slightly different version. As it is with all kind of mythological creatures, every culture has them in a slightly different version.
It was quite interesting reading about the writers' backgrounds, but nevertheless I hoped for more ghost story time.