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dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
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Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I was absolutely nauseated by this book, but found it to be a profound read in the examination of how we treat one another as well as other creatures on earth.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism
Moderate: Child death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Pregnancy
Thought provoking
challenging
dark
informative
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
"After all, since the world began, we've been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we've been literally gorging on each other.
The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical."
a haunting, disgusting book. i hated everything about it, and i hated myself for being so enthralled by it that i finished it almost as immediately as i started it. it’s an important and relevant commentary on what propaganda and blind trust towards rumors and the government can do to society. this is by far the craziest premise i’ve ever known but the story didn’t live up to it. there are so much that it could have been but in the end im left with a “ok.. what now” feeling. is the ending meant to signify how humanity is indeed depraved and there’s no saving us? what is it truly trying to say?
i wish instead of focusing on the gore and the process of how the meat is being produced, the story could’ve dive more into the how and why of this world’s reality. what does it do to the ecosystem now that animals are gone? how many years did the Transition took place? was overpopulation Really that bad that the govt had to make up this may or may not be propaganda? i didnt need to learn how the humans are being processed as livestock to understand how horrifying it is, but alas we have a BUNCH of chapters walking us through that.
moreover, i hated everything about Marcos. his ass was a depressed, angry, miserable contrarian the whole time just for him to end up doing alladat. like wdym you spent the whole book being all holier than thou about hating the whole Transition, being disgusted by his job, etc just for him to r word a woman, impregnates her, cages her the whole duration of pregnancy albeit treating her “humanely” and not even letting her hold her son after she gave birth???? and cecilia saying “whyd you kill her she could’ve produced us more babies girl shut the fawk up??I HATED THIS even though i know it’s to show that even Marcos himself is depraved and a product of this world no matter how different he is from most.
i do however really like the thought exercise this gave me, a lot of thinking will go into this one and i haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since i finished. this one sticks with you. it also reminded me that in any state of dystopia, it will always be women who suffers the most.
i do however really like the thought exercise this gave me, a lot of thinking will go into this one and i haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since i finished. this one sticks with you. it also reminded me that in any state of dystopia, it will always be women who suffers the most.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Excrement, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Car accident
challenging
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"You're extracting life by the mouthful"
This is a visceral book. I can’t recall a book that has made me so physically nauseous that I had to put the book down because I thought I might throw up if I read another sentence. The whole novel and is written in a simple way that is often cold and detached while the scenes they’re describing are revolting, adding to how unsettled I felt throughout the novel.
This is a visceral book. I can’t recall a book that has made me so physically nauseous that I had to put the book down because I thought I might throw up if I read another sentence. The whole novel and is written in a simple way that is often cold and detached while the scenes they’re describing are revolting, adding to how unsettled I felt throughout the novel.
A review on the back of my book really stood out to me: “An astounding portrait of a humanity ready to do anything to satisfy itself even at its own expense”. (Le Monde, France). This book’s terror is demonstrated by how close it parallels our world and the potential for us to cross this threshold. One can argue that industries do kill people for production of luxury goods-the diamond, coffee, and chocolate industries come to mind. The expense in these industries quite literally the bodies, minds, lives, and morals of humans.
This book goes into a LOT of different topics as it complicates characters and the world, while often leaving plenty of room for you to think for yourself-not telling you how to moralize or demoralize a character. I really enjoy this aspect of the book… well I mostly did…because sometimes a theme was introduced in ways that seemed very contrived. Although I don’t know the writer’s intention, as a reader it felt as though some themes were written to simply add another theme to the story and not keeping with the cohesion of the novel. For example near the end of the book there is a female scientist that is mentioned to use her gender to embellish her hardship of breaking the glass ceiling, all the while she herself is participating in the structure of preventing women from maintaining jobs as scientists. Or another mention of the character potentially being sexually assaulted when he was younger (it was left extremely vague). These are very complex topics, but they doesn’t have a whole lot to do with the rest of the story. These are just two examples of heavy and complex topics that was brought up without adding much commentary to the story, there are many more. It sometimes felt to me as a reader that topics were simply introduced to add to the numerous horror of the characters without much elaboration. I would have preferred more quality to the themes rather than quantity.
This book really horrified me as I learned about the unreliability of our narrator that is present the whole story, but slowly reveals itself. This book is not an easy nor fun read, but an important read in a world plagued by science and media being weaponized by the government and food industries alike, luxuries being produced at the cost of life, and the complexity of human motivation. This book pushed some of my boundaries in a very necessary way.
"Merchandise, another word that obscures the world"
"Merchandise, another word that obscures the world"
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Dysphoria, Classism
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Rape, Torture, Violence, Dementia, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
O mais perto que eu já cheguei de virar vegetariana 👌🏻
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder
challenging
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Miscarriage, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Pregnancy
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Infidelity, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cannibalism, Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder
Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Infertility, Excrement, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy
Minor: Animal death, Rape, Torture, Vomit, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Torture, Cannibalism
Moderate: Child death, Death of parent
dark
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Torture, Violence, Cannibalism, Death of parent