Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

163 reviews

j_emerson18's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-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

3.5

Traumatizing. Twisted. Dark. Gruesome. Recommend by one of my best friends. She's gonna need to pay for my therapy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Grief, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Child death, Sexual violence, Animal death, Suicide, Sexual content, Rape, Vomit, Cannibalism, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Murder, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Car accident

roxiehrt's review

dark slow-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

3.0

Wow. This book is depressing. I watch depressing true crime docs for a living and this was tough to get through even for me. Very graphic sections of murder, cannibalism, and dehumanizing behaviors…this is one of the most nihilistic books I’ve ever read. I gave it a 3 because it is well written and the intentions of the book really resonated, but it was a challenge to get through because the content was just…a lot…like…A LOT. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Violence, Vomit, Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Classism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Infertility, Medical content, Sexual content, Trafficking, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, and Torture

corymbia's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

a terrifyingly realistic what if scenario
a not so subtle reflection of society and values
disgusting, horrifying, delicious.
read it in 2 days.
i love this book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Murder, Cannibalism, Gore, Torture, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Trafficking, and Body horror

Moderate: Rape, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Classism, and Suicide

Minor: Dementia and Pedophilia

ex_hardesty's review

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Trafficking, Violence, Rape, Death, Confinement, Vomit, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Death of parent, Dementia, Gore, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child death, Animal death, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Murder, Pregnancy, Slavery, and Suicide

ahhmii's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Pregnancy, Rape, Infidelity, Gore, Suicide, Miscarriage, Cannibalism, Death, Animal cruelty, and Sexual assault

katharina90's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

5.0

Brutal commentary on supremacist delusions and how we justify and normalize violent, socially constructed hierarchies so we can oppress, exploit and extract.

The message is most obvious in regards to human supremacy and capitalism but the book alludes to and is easily applied to other systems of oppression.

I enjoyed the matter-of-fact, detached writing style and the almost Orwellian language.

A fascinating, deeply disturbing book with lots to unpack.

"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."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Violence, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual content, Classism, Rape, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Child death, and Racism

Minor: Dementia, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Slavery, and Suicide

Other: ecofascism, trophy hunting, graphic descriptions of animal agriculture, slaughterhouse operations and animal testing/experimentation

raebennison's review

dark medium-paced

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

1.0

I hated it. I was drawn in by the macabre but even for me that was dark. I hated the characters, all of them. Not one had any redeeming qualities. It was a struggle to finish, I just wanted it over and done with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Animal cruelty, Murder, Sexual content, Suicide, Rape, Animal death, and Torture

beecaelin's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cannibalism, and Animal death

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Child death and Suicide

morgue666's review

challenging dark tense fast-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

3.75

one of the most disgusting books i ever read. this universe is so weird because there’s just vegans watching the rest of the world eat people

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Cannibalism, Sexual assault, Child death, Death, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Sexual violence, Violence, Slavery, Rape, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Excrement, Suicide, Torture, and Self harm

akaspiderlily's review

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