Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

204 reviews

shughes's review

dark sad 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Animal death, Sexual assault, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Violence, Medical trauma, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Gore, Murder, Pregnancy, and Torture

thelibraryofanolive's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual violence, Torture, Excrement, Murder, Body horror, Chronic illness, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Dementia, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Confinement, Classism, Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death of parent, Trafficking, Violence, Alcohol, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Medical trauma, Cursing, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Abortion, Kidnapping, Medical content, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, and Drug use

akaspiderlily's review

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

To be frank, it’s a terrible read. It is highly disturbing, while offering no real substance outside of its graphic detailed description of a cannibalistic future society. There is a fetishization at play almost, and the main character is a violent, raping, sociopath, whose only “human” characteristic lies in the fact that he does not enjoy eating human meat like “normal” with everyone else. Additionally, I found the truly horrific parts of it entirely too pathetically dismissive of the history this society would have had, as if caging humans, breeding them, hunting them, experimenting on them, and eating them, was not something practiced by white conquistadors and slavers on African and indigenous people. There is a literal mention of one of the villains in the story having a picture of a white colonizer with human heads in Africa as a point of reverence, yet only this present-day dystopia is horrific? Terrible. 0 stars. This is why I stay away from white authors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Abortion, Body horror, Child death, Domestic abuse, Torture, Violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, and Trafficking

theochick's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Fucked up in the best sense of the phrase with characters who make your skin crawl the entire way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Torture, Death, Cannibalism, Physical abuse, Slavery, Dementia, Murder, Xenophobia, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Gore, Child death, Trafficking, and Blood

Moderate: Infertility, Rape, Excrement, Alcohol, Animal death, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, and Sexual content

There are holocaust parallels to be aware of as well

maddamreads's review

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

3.5

This book filled me with rage, disgust, sadness, thrill, and a whole other slew of emotions. Overall, the commentary on society, capitalism, grief, and dehumanization is striking. The prose in the translation is beautiful once you get used to it. That being said, some of the metaphors are a bit basic, and the storytelling might have been more effective as a short story. Then again, I wish some parts were more flushed out like

his grief over his child or father

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Blood, Body horror, Slavery, Medical trauma, Torture, Animal death, Sexual violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Infertility, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Rape, and Infidelity

I threw up once. If you can stand body horror and psychological horror, you’ll be okay.

xeno_reads's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

A thought provoking look into a mirror of what humanity can be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Trafficking, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Physical abuse, Excrement, Infidelity, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Pregnancy, Vomit, Ableism, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Animal death, Abandonment, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Blood, Infertility, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Child death, Body horror, Torture, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Sexual assault, Violence, Murder, Slavery, Classism, and Sexual harassment

elinhaldira's review

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Classism, Toxic relationship, Torture, Slavery, Animal death, Miscarriage, Sexism, Rape, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Violence, Murder, Infertility, Animal cruelty, Gore, Racism, Confinement, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Cannibalism, Forced institutionalization, and Death

stefnwp's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Sexual harassment, Hate crime, Infertility, Medical trauma, Murder, Blood, Cannibalism, Grief, Death of parent, Confinement, Child death, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Emotional abuse

themoonshoes's review

challenging 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? Yes

4.0

an incredibly impactful book—i never want to read it again. 

feels extremely cautionary and timely with the way social media has made us easily consumable to one another, but obviously exaggerated to a high degree. i read this book over a 4 hour chunk of time iirc, and i don’t think i’d recommend doing that lol. 

this book will make you feel gross, but sometimes, i think we need that shock to the system to remind us of our humanity tbh! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual content, Animal death, Physical abuse, Death, Misogyny, Police brutality, Self harm, Torture, Cannibalism, Blood, Body horror, and Violence

Minor: Rape

eilidhsusie's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Rape, Racism, Murder, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical trauma, Infertility, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Animal cruelty