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Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Slavery, Torture, Cannibalism
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Genocide, Infertility, Infidelity, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Rape
I went into this knowing the general premise, and based on what I heard from various people, I knew to expect graphic scenes and disturbing content. I did not, however, expect for that to be pretty much all the book had to offer.
I understand the intended message on the ethics of meat consumption:
- At what point do you recognize sentience and value a life?
- Who are we, as humans, to determine who gets to live and who gets to suffer for other's pleasures?
- How is the mass killing and consumption of animals morally above the hypothetical equivalent of humans?
All that being said, I don't think this story was new or even necessary. I think the use of shock value to elicit disgust around this topic doesn't really land when the story takes it much further. The rape of a 14 year old girl cannot be compared to the killing of animals for food. I am not against the message, I just think the book was more shock value than anything.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Cannibalism
Graphic: Animal death, Cannibalism
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder
Moderate: Rape
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Violence, Cannibalism
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Cannibalism
Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent
1. This book is BRUTAL. And I assumed it would be, but each chapter was borderline painful to read because of how detailed the descriptions of farming and experimentation was on the “heads”.
2. I felt like every time they were exploring how Marcos felt about everything going on around him, we barely scratched the surface before moving on to more horrors
3. The ending was so random to me??? It came out of left field in my opinion. Maybe that’s just me.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Murder
Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Pregnancy
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Alcohol
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Blood, Excrement, Dementia, Grief, Cannibalism, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail