Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

72 reviews

monica_paige's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Abortion, Confinement, Pandemic/Epidemic, Trafficking, Animal death, Death, Dementia, Body horror, and Cannibalism

kinskinn's review

challenging dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Murder, Rape, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Torture

Moderate: Colonisation

Minor: Addiction, Abortion, and Vomit

beccabou's review

dark 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? Yes

3.5

This book took me months to read! It is so gruesome and horrific that I could only handle small doses. Fantastic speculative fiction of society turning to organized cannibalism. Struggled a bit with the present tense and blurred transitions of the prose.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism and Violence

Moderate: Abortion, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Gore, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Trafficking, Child death, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Vomit, Body horror, Excrement, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Slavery, Confinement, Dementia, Death, Miscarriage, and Rape

elanashyong's review

challenging dark emotional sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Cannibalism, Physical abuse, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Gore, Classism, Body horror, Racism, Genocide, Blood, Animal cruelty, and Abortion

persiefey's review

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Blood, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, Confinement, Dementia, Grief, Murder, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Abortion, Addiction, Body horror, Cannibalism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, Slavery, Torture, and Vomit

charlereads's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Eating disorder, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Rape, Terminal illness, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit

lea_david's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Amazing. Its super disturbing but i love it. Its not book for everyone tho. Its very gore and detailed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cannibalism, Gore, Animal death, Slavery, Genocide, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Body horror, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Sexual violence, Torture, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Grief, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual harassment, and Death

Not a book for everyone.

albikey's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Very quick to read.  But it is a very hard book to read, it is very explicit.  And the author describes quite realistically the way humans are treated like livestock in real life.  As a person in the veterinary world, I know first-hand about the meat industry.  Seeing the possibility of human beings becoming livestock has been very disturbing, especially because I think that if they were given this opportunity for a way of life, they would be just like the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Dementia, and Gore

Moderate: Trafficking, Murder, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

icarusandthesun's review against another edition

dark reflective tense 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

this book was absolutely insane. and the ending hurt me in a very specific type of way. i feel betrayed. by the author, by the protagonist, by everyone involved in the making of this book.
but it was brilliant and so smart.
the ideas were creative as much as they were brutal and gory.

i loved the unflinching brutality of it all. i like that it made me physically cringe, that it made me uncomfortable, that it shocked me. all the characters were super sinister and made the whole setting even more atmospheric and dark. the themes explored were great, the details disgusting (amazing) and the ending thrilling in a "he did WHAT" type of way.

my only criticism is that i was a little bored at times, since this book felt more like a long info-dump with a bit of drama in between than an actual novel. like an autobiography written by a man who lives this strange life in this dystopian world. it just wasn't enough to keep me interested and entertained. everything, from the story progression to the writing, was too slow for me. 

so—great ideas, sick world-building, superb gore and body horror, exciting ending, but otherwise uneventful and dull story.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Excrement and Rape

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, Infidelity, and Vomit

aaraia's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This book is hard to read but worth it. It poses so many questions and debates and conflicting ideas. Absolutely worth the read if only to see things from a vastly different perspective and question your own inner workings and morals. Amazing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Slavery, Trafficking, Infertility, Animal cruelty, Grief, Pedophilia, Vomit, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Abortion, Child death, Death of parent, Dementia, Excrement, and Gore