Reviews with content warning for Colonisation - Wyborny trup

To be frank, it’s a terrible read. It is highly disturbing, while offering no real substance outside of its graphic detailed description of a cannibalistic future society. There is a fetishization at play almost, and the main character is a violent, raping, sociopath, whose only “human” characteristic lies in the fact that he does not enjoy eating human meat like “normal” with everyone else. Additionally, I found the truly horrific parts of it entirely too pathetically dismissive of the history this society would have had, as if caging humans, breeding them, hunting them, experimenting on them, and eating them, was not something practiced by white conquistadors and slavers on African and indigenous people. There is a literal mention of one of the villains in the story having a picture of a white colonizer with human heads in Africa as a point of reverence, yet only this present-day dystopia is horrific? Terrible. 0 stars. This is why I stay away from white authors.

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reillym's review against another edition

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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? Yes

4.25

Demented and beautiful. I had chills at the end.

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kinsportch's review against another edition

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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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sakisreads's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense fast-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

This is definitely not my usual type of story, but let me give you a little context as to why I ended up reading it!

I was at a restaurant in London with my friend; we’re both big foodies so we wanted to try out a tasting menu at a hip hotel. A man was sat across from us, enjoying the same tasting menu and a bottle of wine by himself, and reading this book. As an avid reader (and as a big introvert who loved that he could come and enjoy a tasting menu and wine alone!), I had to know what he was reading. So I asked and he held this up, only giving me a tiny peek on what the book was going to delve into! 😳

If anyone knows of this man, please tell him that I want to discuss this book with him and that I want more recommendations ✨

Anyway, I’m giving this book 4 out of 5 stars. It’s evidently VERY creepy and is intended to horrify/shock, but I still felt like I gasped a lot. There were also elements of humour, which was quite refreshing for a book about legalised cannibalism 😂

When he impregnated ‘Jasmine’, I was aghast but also couldn’t stop reading! 😫

There is commentary on government VS the people, grief and race. I will put the content warnings down below.

Thank you so much ✨

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