Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

563 reviews

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

OMG. I’m going to goes the author is a vegetarian or vegan? No idea, but if i was a carnivore or omnivore, I might think twice the next time I’m faced with meat. This is the kind of book I’d love to teach in high school. Definitely will need to reread it many times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

teenyshamble's review against another edition

Plot feels self indulgent, shock factor over actual plot, ending is wildly predictable. It's not good writing, it's just inexplicably gory for the shock factor more than anything. An interesting thought experiment executed poorly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Dementia, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

criscroscris's review

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No

4.75

leer este libro es como ver un accodente de tráfico o un parto que sale mal

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Dementia, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

no lo lean

atchim's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Cannibalism, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Infertility, Dementia, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Homophobia

miranda_lynn1234's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

1.0

What the actual fuck.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

vero_is_strangerthanfiction's review against another edition

dark tense

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Infertility, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rattine's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Cannibalism, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infertility

mel9's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, Torture, Vomit, Dementia, Trafficking, Death of parent, Murder, and Classism

fuzzy's review

dark sad medium-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? Yes

3.5

This is a very intense book that I found off TikTok, it just seemed like one of those silly “wish i could read it for the first time” recs. But it’s not 😭
The premise is very interesting and themes of humanity were very well discussed; however, those with weak stomachs should put down this book. I would say I have a fairly high tolerance for darker themes and graphic scenes, but even this book tested my limits. 
Where the book lost me is, until the ‘twist’ at the end, the main character was very confusing to me in whether or not I was supposed to be rooting for him. I was decidedly not after he

SAed a pivotal character

, but I found the rest of the book hard to finish as the main character was an exceedingly worse and worse person in a very unsettling way. And while this can be a good thing, much of the book relies on the severe harming of women which I do not particularly enjoy in my books.
I still gave the book a 3.5 because the world and ending is decidedly interesting, and if i could be more objective the rating would be higher, but reading is subjective and I would not recommend this book to most sane people. I guess that is what the author meant tho so there is a funny irony in there somewhere. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

cybeleflame's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic