Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

531 reviews

enyltiak's review

challenging 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

1.0

This book made me so furious that I hate finished it rather than simply DNF. The violence against women, use of the born-sexy-yesterday trope, the writing so clinical and detached which I get but I felt really didn't service a story that seems to want to have a strong emotional core—never mind the fact that the main character is almost never mentioned by name in the narration, in a story of mostly male characters, which makes figuring out who said or did what incredibly confusing and irritating. There's an interesting social commentary under all this, but by the end of Part One I didn't care, and in Part Two I was just disgusted by the main character, and not even in an interesting way you would expect from a horror novel. And this is personal to my boundaries but the animal cruelty made me sick. Overall just not a good time with this one, actually put me into a slump, and just depressed the hell out of me—I don't feel like I even got anything from that feeling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Gore, Death of parent, Cannibalism, Classism, Death, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Grief, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, and Animal death

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Child death, Trafficking, and Medical content

emviolet's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Murder, Trafficking, Death, Animal death, Cannibalism, Sexism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Blood, Violence, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Dementia, Medical content, Alcohol, and Blood

vanesst's review

dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Torture, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcohol, Excrement, Death of parent, Dementia, and Pandemic/Epidemic

q_bert13's review

challenging dark 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? No

3.0

A dark, frightening look at a dystopian capitalist world ‘forced’ into cannibalism via an animal-attacking virus. Don’t go into this book looking for likeable characters either. Overall the storyline is interesting, with twists you don’t expect. The book so separated in two parts (with a time jump between them), with part one going much slower than the second half. I feel like the inclusion of a middle chapter, either featuring the main characters or just focusing on the society as a whole would help ‘flesh out’ the story (pun not intended). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, Addiction, Alcohol, Body horror, Blood, Classism, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Infertility, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Rape and Pedophilia

abbyg007's review

dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Death of parent, Body horror, Gore, Infertility, Child death, Animal death, Abandonment, Cannibalism, Death, Dementia, Grief, and Pregnancy

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

fernash's review

dark slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Gore, Sexual content, Trafficking, Body horror, Violence, Cannibalism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, and Dementia

fullofbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Torture, Sexual assault, Child death, Animal death, Dementia, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, and Violence

cgranoff's review

dark sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Murder, Sexual assault, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Cannibalism, Death, Infertility, Death of parent, Child death, Body horror, Vomit, Animal death, Blood, Physical abuse, Gore, and Torture

eliencostermans's review

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Trafficking, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Grief, Child death, Blood, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Torture, Violence, Cannibalism, and Murder

Moderate: Dementia

Minor: Slavery