Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

38 reviews

reginacattus's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I think this book might be the most tense and physically uncomfortable read I've ever encountered, and incredibly thought-provoking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Murder, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Infertility, Cannibalism, Death, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Confinement, Blood, Sexual assault, Gore, and Death of parent

Moderate: Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Classism, Slavery, Terminal illness, Colonisation, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Infidelity

Minor: Alcohol, Excrement, Cursing, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Abandonment

reggiethebird's review

challenging dark sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

It's fucked up, y'all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Blood, Classism, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Torture, Animal cruelty, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Dementia, Violence, Slavery, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Gore, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug use, Miscarriage, Rape, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Suicide, and Self harm

Minor: Body shaming

readwithsian's review against another edition

challenging 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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Child death, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Slavery, Sexual harassment, Infertility, Emotional abuse, Dementia, Death of parent, Rape, Violence, Miscarriage, Animal death, War, Torture, Colonisation, Body horror, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Gore, Death, Classism, Alcohol, Trafficking, Medical content, Grief, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Abortion, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Mental illness, Suicide, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, and Adult/minor relationship

maddiemooney's review

dark reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism

Minor: Torture, Trafficking, Body horror, Child death, Murder, Death of parent, Dementia, Gore, Infertility, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Rape, and Suicide attempt

lance_'s review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

One thing I'd like to point out is that people seem to equate this as to those cringey PETA posts when it's never really about eating animal meat in the first place. We get one mention of vegans and never again. It's about class, power structure and capitalism; a depraved eat-or-be-eaten hellscape maximized. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Rape, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Slavery, Physical abuse, Gore, Torture, Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Pregnancy, Child death, Cannibalism, and Blood

sugarbucky's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Cannibalism, Violence, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, and Rape

Moderate: Vomit, Slavery, and Abortion

arcticmelting's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

EW. I hated it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Child death, Violence, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Slavery, Body horror, Blood, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Death, Animal death, Cannibalism, Torture, Miscarriage, and Gore

Have a strong stomach

fromthefoxhole's review

challenging dark tense 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

5.0

oh my stomach hurts, but god it was so good. a mess of trigger warnings apply here, please heed that !!

from the very first chapter, this book had me oscillating between voracious interest and making sure I had a trash can nearby in case I needed to vomit, which I think is a testament to how well written it is. 

Marcos, our main character, is a very broken man, surrounded by death, in both his professional and personal lives. Working in a meat processing plant is already a somewhat gruesome process, but it's made infinitely worse when a virus makes eating animals impossible, and the government shifts to "special meat", aka humans bred specifically for consumption. Marcos finds himself on a precipice - on the one hand, he does still find this work morally wrong, and is frustrated by the dehumanizing language surrounding the whole affair. On the other hand, it's all he's ever known. 

There are so many passages where I briefly forgot the crux of the story, and would be yanked back to the truth so forcefully that I felt like I was developing whiplash. The ending, especially, broke my brain so severely that I just sat in silence for a few hours, trying to process everything I had just read. Absolutely a five star read, but I never plan to revisit it lol.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Child death, Body horror, Violence, Mental illness, Grief, Cursing, Cannibalism, Slavery, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, Vomit, Animal death, Terminal illness, and Excrement

ericaburns1's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

The majority of this book is explaining the new situation the world is in regarding the new “special meat.” Nothing really happens. Because the concept is so revolting, it does keep you reading as it gets morally worse and worse with regards to how people are managing life after “The Transition.” However, some parts of the story feel like they serve no purpose and didn’t ever wrap up.

What was the deal with him and Spanel? I did like how it leads you to believe he will be a morally superior character and perhaps derail the special meat system but ultimately remains using it for his gain.  *edit* after doing more reading on the book and realizing it’s not really about cannibalism but about him wanting a child, everything makes more sense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual violence, Cannibalism, Physical abuse, Rape, Pedophilia, Torture, Animal cruelty, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Infertility, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Child death, Infidelity, Trafficking, and Racism

Minor: Dementia

josephboardman_'s review

tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Vomit, Blood, Child death, Trafficking, Dementia, Gore, Genocide, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Cannibalism, Death, Grief, Self harm, Infertility, and Murder