Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

1738 reviews

bibliophil_leah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

Fucked up but in a good way. I really in enjoyed the themes this book covered and shedding light on issues this world faces by changing animals to humans and making humans animals.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Torture, Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Gore, Pregnancy, Child death, and Violence

virtamtuck's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Slavery, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pedophilia, Sexism, Violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Body horror, Child death, Dementia, Rape, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Murder, Genocide, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Torture, and Trafficking

measbu's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Murder, Child death, Blood, Infertility, Grief, Excrement, Dementia, Death of parent, Body horror, Slavery, Gore, Physical abuse, Cannibalism, Animal death, Violence, Death, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

bethpaws's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

In this deeply disturbing dystopian novel, a virus has resulted in all animals being slaughtered resulting in cannibalism being legal and accepted. Marcos works in a processing plant, and we follow his story with a focus on his actions after receiving a female specimen as a gift. The book contains graphic descriptions of slaughter.
 This book was an addictive read, and genuinely made me think and reflect on many issues of society. 
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Child death, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Trafficking, Rape, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

allegrayr00's review

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Animal death, Cannibalism, Death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Grief, Car accident, Child death, and Dementia

Minor: Rape, Cursing, Alcohol, Sexism, Excrement, Misogyny, Homophobia, and Vomit

aliciaurbain's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal cruelty, Toxic friendship, Murder, Animal death, Infidelity, Pandemic/Epidemic, Vomit, Body horror, Blood, Cannibalism, Cursing, Dementia, Gore, Child death, Pregnancy, and Violence

jessiejonesbentley's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Death, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cannibalism, Infertility, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Torture, Dementia, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Violence

mybestfriendisabook's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

wow this is the most fucked up thing i’ve ever read. i almost DNFed at the start bc i didn’t think i could stomach it, i was very on guard and unsettled. if it was all gore, i definitely wouldn’t have made it. the ending… phew wow didn’t see that coming but it all makes sense now.

how the slaughterhouse is described and how the humans are referred is just like what happens to the animals that are bred for “food” - having seen footage of these practices, it was very very disturbing to imagine humans in their place.

i hope that readers can realize that the treatment of humans in this book is literally a reality today for nonhuman animals - pure pure horror and nothing you’d wish upon anyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Rape, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Death, Child death, Confinement, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, Slavery, and Torture

wonderveto's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Simply passing off this book as using cannibalism & graphic themes & descriptions for the sake of shock value is doing it a disservice.

This book explores government control, dehumanization, and the complicity of everyday people. With that being said, this book is not for everyone, there are graphic content & descriptions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Gore, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Rape

mcrespo's review

challenging dark tense fast-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

3.75

cause you're just a man .... it's just what you do (@ Marcos). no but in all seriousness, this novel offers some apt commentary on capitalism, and i think it perfectly depicts how pressures from societal expectations and grief can push anyone to abandon their morality. i do wish that the theme of feminism, which seemed to be touched on with Dr. Valka, was more developed, and i think that Bazterrica had a few missed opportunities to offer some meaningful commentary on the way forces like capitalism, racism, misogyny all come together to play a role in society's demise, but if you're in the market for a dystopian fiction that critiques capitalism, this is a great novel with a strong conclusion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Murder, Cannibalism, Animal death, and Gore

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, and Death of parent