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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
medium-paced
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Notes while reading:
And in under 20 pages i am horrible uncomfortable.
The no vocal cords thing is diabolically written
This is clearly not read to be enjoyed. Shivering.
The second part of this book is ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE TO READ
I don’t recommend this to anyone. This is a book that should be caged up.
I don’t recommend this to anyone. This is a book that should be caged up.
challenging
dark
sad
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:
Yes
Amazing world building, but when does the plot start?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Infertility, Sexual content
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i picked this up because of the title, which i think is probably one of the all-time greatest titles for a book about cannibalism which seeks to answer the question: what COULD lead us to eating another person? except, the "us" isn't individual but rather on a grand, global(?) scale, which changes the question somewhat: what kind of motivation could there be for a government to persuade its people to start eating each other? and how do they go about doing that?
the most powerful part of the book, i think, is how bazterrica shows language in the process of being exploited - how people find words which "silence the horror", how they evade or indict or fail in the face of extremity and brutality. in that sense, it's like a thought-experiment gone dizzylingly wrong, with each further question or answer sending us further and further into events that language HAS to flatten out in order to articulate them at all.
the exposition is quite clunky at points, which is a shame for a novel which is otherwise very careful about its structure, and i'm pretty mad at bazterrica for making me imagine human fingers as hors d'oeuvres, but on the whole a really thought-provoking and unsettling read.
the most powerful part of the book, i think, is how bazterrica shows language in the process of being exploited - how people find words which "silence the horror", how they evade or indict or fail in the face of extremity and brutality. in that sense, it's like a thought-experiment gone dizzylingly wrong, with each further question or answer sending us further and further into events that language HAS to flatten out in order to articulate them at all.
the exposition is quite clunky at points, which is a shame for a novel which is otherwise very careful about its structure, and i'm pretty mad at bazterrica for making me imagine human fingers as hors d'oeuvres, but on the whole a really thought-provoking and unsettling read.
dark
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It’s unbearable, it made me truly nauseous.