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There is some character development, but it all happens during the 8 months between part 1 and part 2 that we don't get to see. Most of part 2 is just dealing with the fallout of the character change of Marcos, and I felt like we were about to reach a climax with his social interactions when the book just ended.
Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Grief, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Confinement, Infertility, Rape, Sexual content, Excrement, Death of parent, Alcohol
Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Death, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Infertility, Sexual content, Medical content, Pregnancy
Minor: Cursing, Rape
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Infertility, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
"After all, since the world began, we've been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we've been literally gorging on each other.
The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical."
a haunting, disgusting book. i hated everything about it, and i hated myself for being so enthralled by it that i finished it almost as immediately as i started it. it’s an important and relevant commentary on what propaganda and blind trust towards rumors and the government can do to society. this is by far the craziest premise i’ve ever known but the story didn’t live up to it. there are so much that it could have been but in the end im left with a “ok.. what now” feeling. is the ending meant to signify how humanity is indeed depraved and there’s no saving us? what is it truly trying to say?
i wish instead of focusing on the gore and the process of how the meat is being produced, the story could’ve dive more into the how and why of this world’s reality. what does it do to the ecosystem now that animals are gone? how many years did the Transition took place? was overpopulation Really that bad that the govt had to make up this may or may not be propaganda? i didnt need to learn how the humans are being processed as livestock to understand how horrifying it is, but alas we have a BUNCH of chapters walking us through that.
i do however really like the thought exercise this gave me, a lot of thinking will go into this one and i haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since i finished. this one sticks with you. it also reminded me that in any state of dystopia, it will always be women who suffers the most.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Excrement, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Car accident
Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Confinement, Infertility, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Excrement, Medical content
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Slavery, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Trafficking
Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death of parent
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Drug abuse, Infertility, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Excrement, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Infidelity, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, Death of parent
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Blood, Excrement, Dementia, Grief, Cannibalism, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail