Reviews tagging 'Cannibalism'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

2617 reviews

gasrat's review

dark slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Torture, Animal death, Rape, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, and Child abuse

liv_1810's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I’m still in shock. Honestly, this book is crazy in the best way possible. The ending is literally baffling. I’m still recovering. 

I love the language style. It’s so simple and almost basic but I think it really adds to the tone of the book. It feels very cold and blunt, it’s perfect for the plot. The main character is hardly ever named which I love too. It’s a really interesting and clever technique. I never really felt connected to anyone, if anything I hated most of the characters. But they’re all so complex I couldn’t help but be intrigued by them in the worst way possible.

I could write a whole essay on this book.

I’m still not over the thing about the puppies and I don’t think I ever will be.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pregnancy and Infertility

ellevlt's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

wow this guy really hates women! 

Idk I think it just wasn’t for me. I thought the premise was so promising and really interesting at some parts but I just couldn’t get past the main character. Wanted to get through it in case twist paid off but ending fell flat for me too. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Torture, Violence, Sexual violence, and Rape

Moderate: Body horror, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, Confinement, Homophobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Child death, Grief, Animal cruelty, Murder, and Death of parent

grilledcheesefan's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Blood, Death, and Child death

Minor: Pregnancy, Animal death, Trafficking, and Animal cruelty

bethann_coleates's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Death, Animal death, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Physical abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Sexual assault, Vomit, Blood, Rape, Cannibalism, Slavery, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Animal cruelty, Excrement, Pregnancy, Torture, and Trafficking

eatthewyrm's review

challenging dark fast-paced

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

5.0

My new Roman Empire. I don’t think I’ll ever look at the world the same way again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Infertility and Injury/Injury detail

samjoc'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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Sexual assault

ishelenthal's review

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism

Moderate: Animal cruelty

mimimars's review

dark reflective 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

4.0

I can’t give this book a bad rating because ultimately it hooked me. I was disturbed the entire time, but I couldn’t put the book down. That being said, the ending just reinforced the WTF feeling. I kinda wanna set this book on fire. I need therapy after this. Oml

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cannibalism, Rape, and Child death

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