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Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

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tessaturnspages's review

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adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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emviolet's review

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dark sad medium-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? Yes

2.5

i heard a lot of great things about this book, and i do think the idea of the overarching metaphor (humans treating certain groups as less than, dehumanizing certain groups to make them seem “animal”, etc) could be really powerful. but…the amount of gruesome, awful images throughout the book are just painful, and there isn’t a lot of actual plot or development or action to make any of it feel justified. it just feels dark and violent for the sake of being dark and violent. i wanted to like it, i really did, and it had a few moments. but i don’t think i could ever recommend this to anyone.

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faeblxde's review

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challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Absolutely sickening and eye opening.

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j_emerson18's review against another edition

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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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mochilovesbooks's review

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challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

What a hard read to get get through. The factor that kept me going was the MC (IN THE BEGINNING). I felt so much empathy for his situation. Near the halfway point, my empathy began to waver. Who once seemed good, I could suddenly see a darkness in him, not the darkness of sadness but the darkness of malice. By the end, he was just a horrible monster. I heard multiple times that the last line of the book is shocking but I wasn't expecting that.

The book had so many oddly ironic moments. I wouldn't say it was comedic in any way, but because the irony caught me off guard I often let out a laugh of disbelief. Particulary how they celebrate a new born.

Overall, I loved the writing. If you could stomach the harsh topics of this read, I would definitely recommend it to someone who wants to read a gory psychological horror. Not much plot, just world building and character development(?).

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heartbug's review

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It offered a very weak/not plausible explanation to justify why the world became okay with farming humans for human consumption… so it was like “let’s patch that massive hole with some masking tape so that we can get to squirm with horror just for the sake of doing so”.

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underscoremeg's review

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dark 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

4.5

Despite the content warnings, this book was easy to consume! The writing is skillful and detailed without being disgusting.

In the future, the animals of the world come down with a virus that is lethal to humans, making them unable to be eaten. Because of this, humans have resorted to commercializing cannibalism.

The main character is the manager of a meat processing plant and the book follows him through his experiences working with other businesses in the meat market, including breeders, hunters, butchers, and leather goods. We see the world through his perspective, learning his feelings about the state of the world as well as his own personal life and challenges.

This book was described to me as deeply disturbing and disgusting. I wasn’t bothered by much of the gore. There is DEFINITELY gore, but it’s all described in such a detached manner that it’s really not a body horror disgust. The horror of this book was much more mental for me - the thought of humans being raised to be slaughtered for meat is crazy.

The book takes things a step further, though, when the main character is gifted a female and he slowly begins to treat her like a real person, rather than an animal to be slaughtered.

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