Reviews tagging 'Mass/school shootings'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

2 reviews

mxpringle's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

I literally don't know what to say about this I'm so awestruck and disgusted

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Infertility, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Death, Violence, Torture, Miscarriage, Genocide, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Slavery, Murder, Animal death, Rape, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Child death

onthelam's review

dark sad tense

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Normally I enjoy grotesque disgusting descriptive books but this was just pointless and insensible? Most of the scenes didn't add to the story and were just dragging. It felt like a short story stretched to fit a whole book. Also, there was some stuff included to make the twist believable but there was so much more against it.

If he didn't care for jasmine at all then why did he name her, treat her as a human and all that? He could have just raped her and kept her in the barn dirty till she gave birth if that was all he wanted. And the things that point to him not being the somewhat moral person as portrayed in most of the book can also be explained by the sense of helplessness prevalent through it like the puppy scene and the fact that he killed his dogs. So really there was no good foreshadowing and it was just there to add shock value.

. I liked the idea a lot and some of the things early on especially the commentary on humanity in general but the execution could have been much better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Excrement, Genocide, Slavery, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, and Trafficking

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Vomit, Bullying, Death of parent, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Self harm, Police brutality, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Confinement