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Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

113 reviews

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

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

katierosecrane's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book pushes your mind to a dark world. Excellently written. Extremely dark. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Trafficking, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Slavery, Animal death, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cursing, Alcohol, Confinement, Genocide, Infidelity, Torture, Infertility, and Violence

millerjd212's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-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? N/A

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism and Rape

Moderate: Alcohol and Animal death

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.

blueyapologist's review

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Holy shit dude. This book had tension and twists and I have never felt a stronger urge to shower after reading something 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child death, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Torture, Drug use, Animal death, Addiction, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Blood, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Chronic illness, Body horror, Dementia, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Infertility, Grief, Gore, Cursing, Confinement, Classism, Cannibalism, Alcoholism, Murder, Misogyny, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Racism, Genocide, Car accident, and Animal cruelty

skillyillian's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? Yes

3.5

what in the deep fried "special" fuck did i just read

it does what it's meant to do, in every way. it's slow going as hell, i spent half of this kinda bored, but the ending is as "oh my god" as people say it is. tbqh a lot of this felt gratuitous. i'm not opposed to gore but the stuff about kids was too much for me, by a lot. that being said, this is basically the handmaid's tale of cannibalism. you could just barely see it happening in extremely specific circumstances, and it's a great statement on the way society is willing to look the other way at the most obscene atrocities as long as we don't have to actually watch it happen. governments, media, the testaments of experts (and "experts"), make up so much of how we view the world, and the author shows that in crystal clear detail. as soon as they say it's fine, we take it at face value and move on, ignoring what's happening behind the curtain. kinda makes you think about what else goes on in plain sight that we turn a blind eye to so that we don't have to openly acknowledge it.

anyway, extra half star for joseph balderrama as a thank you for not gagging in my ears throughout the audiobook

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Confinement, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Excrement, Grief, Infertility, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Infidelity, Violence, Rape, Trafficking, Alcohol, Blood, Cannibalism, Dementia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

kaitlynfreeze's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

Whew…

Honestly I have no words. It was easy to read but hard to get through. Very heavy topics and left me feeling indifferent and sad from different angles. 

I know this review is so vague but I was left pretty speechless. 

4 stars to the book because the author did keep me intrigued yet disgusted the entire read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Murder, Rape, Animal death, Excrement, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Slavery, Torture, Grief, Gore, Animal cruelty, Death, Genocide, Infertility, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Death of parent, Child death, and Dementia

aubristar's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

this book took me for a whirlwind of emotions and made me contemplate my food choices. it was gross and very graphic and detailed but i couldn’t put it down. 100000000% recommend 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Body horror, Animal death, Blood, Infertility, Cannibalism, Death, Grief, Animal cruelty, and Alcohol

dragonterriers's review

challenging dark reflective tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.25

this book is absolutely unrelenting until the last word, and not for the faint of heart nor the weak of stomach. the commentary is thought-provoking (though a little tired, to me), and the carnage is very illustrative and… brutal, if not a little gratuitous at times, but i suppose that’s the point. i am a long-time horror film fan that’s getting back into reading, and have been struggling to find a horror book that gives me the same ick as some of the movies i’ve seen - and boy howdy, i’ve found it. proceed with caution and mind the CW/TWs, but if you’re down to explore the philosophical doom spectrum of moral greys to absolute depravity, strap in, this is for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual violence, Death, Gore, Torture, Child death, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Grief, Alcohol, Vomit, Excrement, Classism, and Misogyny