Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

89 reviews

unhappygilmore's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism

Moderate: Rape, Animal death, and Child death

Minor: Slavery, Addiction, Torture, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Adult/minor relationship, and Trafficking

katierosecrane's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book pushes your mind to a dark world. Excellently written. Extremely dark. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Trafficking, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Slavery, Animal death, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cursing, Alcohol, Confinement, Genocide, Infidelity, Torture, Infertility, and Violence

maddamreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

3.5

This book filled me with rage, disgust, sadness, thrill, and a whole other slew of emotions. Overall, the commentary on society, capitalism, grief, and dehumanization is striking. The prose in the translation is beautiful once you get used to it. That being said, some of the metaphors are a bit basic, and the storytelling might have been more effective as a short story. Then again, I wish some parts were more flushed out like

his grief over his child or father

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Blood, Body horror, Slavery, Medical trauma, Torture, Animal death, Sexual violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Infertility, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Rape, and Infidelity

I threw up once. If you can stand body horror and psychological horror, you’ll be okay.

chloew130's review against another edition

dark reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Cannibalism, Blood, Gore, and Animal cruelty

hkajer's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Trafficking, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Murder, and Torture

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Dementia, Adult/minor relationship, and Excrement

Like 1984, but with cannibalism.

skillyillian's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

what in the deep fried "special" fuck did i just read

it does what it's meant to do, in every way. it's slow going as hell, i spent half of this kinda bored, but the ending is as "oh my god" as people say it is. tbqh a lot of this felt gratuitous. i'm not opposed to gore but the stuff about kids was too much for me, by a lot. that being said, this is basically the handmaid's tale of cannibalism. you could just barely see it happening in extremely specific circumstances, and it's a great statement on the way society is willing to look the other way at the most obscene atrocities as long as we don't have to actually watch it happen. governments, media, the testaments of experts (and "experts"), make up so much of how we view the world, and the author shows that in crystal clear detail. as soon as they say it's fine, we take it at face value and move on, ignoring what's happening behind the curtain. kinda makes you think about what else goes on in plain sight that we turn a blind eye to so that we don't have to openly acknowledge it.

anyway, extra half star for joseph balderrama as a thank you for not gagging in my ears throughout the audiobook

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Confinement, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Excrement, Grief, Infertility, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Infidelity, Violence, Rape, Trafficking, Alcohol, Blood, Cannibalism, Dementia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

reillym's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

4.25

Demented and beautiful. I had chills at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Pedophilia, Rape, Emotional abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Violence, Trafficking, Torture, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Forced institutionalization, and Confinement

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Dementia, and Excrement

smokingintherain's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism

Moderate: Violence and Adult/minor relationship

hunnybeebs_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Grief, Dementia, Classism, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Abortion, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child death, Gore, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, and Pandemic/Epidemic

jamo_etc's review against another edition

dark sad fast-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

Not at all pleasant. Interesting read. Very uncomfortable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Animal death, Child death, Rape, Drug use, Excrement, Medical trauma, Gore, Medical content, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Cannibalism, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Animal cruelty, Dementia, Grief, Infertility, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Trafficking