Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

75 reviews

kelisabeth's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Grief, Abortion, Animal death, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Gore, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Dementia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Torture, Child abuse, Confinement, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Physical abuse, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Misogyny, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, and Rape

elinhaldira's review

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

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

oleaceae_18's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

This book is definitely disturbing, unsettling, and very gross, even though I would say it's well written. It's pretty explicitly gory and certainly has some parts of characters being racist by fetishizing black skin and misogyny.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Cannibalism, Child death, Gore, Blood, Sexual content, and Violence

reillym's review

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

avareadsoccasionally's review

challenging dark fast-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

2.0

• a LOT of exposition in the first couple pages that maybe could’ve been spread out more. Also couldn’t help but think with the way the worldbuilding was set up that couldn’t there be a better option? Like it didn’t seem as though all the options were attempted and everyone jumped straight towards cannabalism. Sometimes it felt like gore just for the shock factor or just for gore’s sake. I prefer a little bit more of a plot but it fell flat for me, especially because it didn’t seem fully realized other than strict cannabalism. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Slavery, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death, Torture, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child abuse, Trafficking, Body horror, Child death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Rape, and Physical abuse

opininginplay's review

dark tense slow-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: Toxic relationship, Genocide, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, and Slavery

gaven's review

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Cannibalism, Body horror, Death of parent, Gore, Child death, Murder, Animal death, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, and Rape

orlagal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Excrement, Genocide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Abandonment, Ableism, Animal death, Grief, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Vomit, Blood, Cannibalism, Dementia, Gore, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, and Slavery

gondorgirl's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, Blood, Death, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Grief, Slavery, Cannibalism, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Dementia, Medical trauma, Trafficking, Animal death, Body horror, Genocide, Gore, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Sexual assault