Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

1254 reviews

ravenousrose's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, Confinement, Dementia, Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, and Violence

auburn's review

dark sad tense 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Gore, Child death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Cannibalism, Rape, Slavery, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Death of parent, Death, Body horror, Blood, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Mental illness

mikeyz's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Vomit, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Abortion, Alcohol, Suicide, Trafficking, Gore, Excrement, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Rape, Racism, Cannibalism, Child death, Blood, Death of parent, Infertility, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, and Violence

librisaddictus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cannibalism, and Violence

Minor: Slavery

tarantulagirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Animal death, Body horror, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Rape, Violence, Gore, Death, Sexual assault, Murder, and Cannibalism

darla78's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.25

Horrifying.  A representation of how propaganda works and how different people find ways to operate under harmful systems--by assimilating, staying quite, or by working the system in a way that benefits them somehow (thus finding a way to justify atrocity). Tough but quick read. Would recommend, but only to readers who are not in the least squeamish--this book will give you a stomach ache and play on your thoughts for awhile.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Murder, Violence, and Animal cruelty

tessaturnspages's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Animal death, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Torture, Medical trauma, Blood, Murder, Animal cruelty, and Sexual content

emviolet's review

dark sad medium-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

2.5

i heard a lot of great things about this book, and i do think the idea of the overarching metaphor (humans treating certain groups as less than, dehumanizing certain groups to make them seem “animal”, etc) could be really powerful. but…the amount of gruesome, awful images throughout the book are just painful, and there isn’t a lot of actual plot or development or action to make any of it feel justified. it just feels dark and violent for the sake of being dark and violent. i wanted to like it, i really did, and it had a few moments. but i don’t think i could ever recommend this to anyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Murder, Trafficking, Death, Animal death, Cannibalism, Sexism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Blood, Violence, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Dementia, Medical content, Alcohol, and Blood

j_emerson18's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Traumatizing. Twisted. Dark. Gruesome. Recommend by one of my best friends. She's gonna need to pay for my therapy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Grief, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Child death, Sexual violence, Animal death, Suicide, Sexual content, Rape, Vomit, Cannibalism, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Murder, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Car accident

amandesite'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Rape, and Cannibalism