Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

225 reviews

thelibraryofanolive's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual violence, Torture, Excrement, Murder, Body horror, Chronic illness, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Dementia, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Confinement, Classism, Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death of parent, Trafficking, Violence, Alcohol, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Medical trauma, Cursing, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Abortion, Kidnapping, Medical content, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, and Drug use

mercedesmosley's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

By far the most intense book I've ever read. Had a hard time putting it down. I will say though, it is not for those with a weak stomach. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child death, Infertility, Violence, Mental illness, Death, Body horror, Sexual content, Medical content, Blood, Gore, Torture, Infidelity, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

jemmers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was cruel and lean. Starts off at a moderate pace and builds to a fast, brutal conclusion. It’ll sit with you. The world and characters are horrible and I couldn’t look away.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Rape, Infertility, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual violence, Animal death, Dementia, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Medical content, Blood, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Body horror, Trafficking, Torture, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Death of parent, Genocide, Child death, Gaslighting, Cannibalism, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

angelinasroom's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

So incredibly disturbing. This book through me for an absolute loop. I would highly recommend this as a quick read if you're a fan of dark, disturbing, and dystopian books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, Infertility, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

akaspiderlily's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

To be frank, it’s a terrible read. It is highly disturbing, while offering no real substance outside of its graphic detailed description of a cannibalistic future society. There is a fetishization at play almost, and the main character is a violent, raping, sociopath, whose only “human” characteristic lies in the fact that he does not enjoy eating human meat like “normal” with everyone else. Additionally, I found the truly horrific parts of it entirely too pathetically dismissive of the history this society would have had, as if caging humans, breeding them, hunting them, experimenting on them, and eating them, was not something practiced by white conquistadors and slavers on African and indigenous people. There is a literal mention of one of the villains in the story having a picture of a white colonizer with human heads in Africa as a point of reverence, yet only this present-day dystopia is horrific? Terrible. 0 stars. This is why I stay away from white authors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Abortion, Body horror, Child death, Domestic abuse, Torture, Violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, 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

virgomoon9's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book is deeply disturbing, but in a way that makes you think, not solely for the shock factor. I gave it 4 stars because on top of all the disturbing human meat market plot, they decided to add a sprinkle of animal cruelty which is something that I try to avoid. TBH it was my fault for not looking for trigger warnings. Nevertheless, I really enjoyed this book and the ending left me in shock.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Murder, Death of parent, Body horror, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Gore, and Rape

jagoda_readsbooks's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

I can't really rate this because I wouldn't know where to even begin.
It's certainly not a book I would recommend to anyone I know and it was way more explicit and brutal than I thought it would be to be honest, since I went in nearly completely blind, only  knowing that the main topic would be structural cannibalism.

But it will stay in my thoughts a long time and it has a lot of themes you can talk about. I also actually liked that there was no real moral to take away from it because the main protagonist himself is part of the system and it's exclusively told from his pov. So you have to interpret everything yourself. 

For a lot of the book I kinda felt like I should feel sorry for the protagonist, but in the end I'm very happy that I didn't 😅

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Classism, Sexual violence, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Slavery, Death, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Cannibalism, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Torture, and Child death

elinhaldira's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Classism, Toxic relationship, Torture, Slavery, Animal death, Miscarriage, Sexism, Rape, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Violence, Murder, Infertility, Animal cruelty, Gore, Racism, Confinement, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Cannibalism, Forced institutionalization, and Death

a_stroberry's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Cannibalism, and Slavery

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Infertility, Toxic relationship, Death, Genocide, Self harm, Domestic abuse, Classism, and Dementia