Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

2427 reviews

woodselisa76's review against another edition

5.0

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy

soggycheez's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

solsticeillo's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Bleak and unflinching, Tender is The Flesh is a sobering reminder of the cruelty of humanity, and the pandemic of human apathy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Infertility, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

ladygray_'s review against another edition

3.0

dark reflective 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

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A pretty good book, really grotesque descriptions and very compelling world building. the thing I didn’t like is that it’s very predictable, everything i thought was going to happen, did. so at the end i was just like, well yeah. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy

The F slur is used twice. It’s in the same scene so once you've passed it that’s it. In context, it does add to the authenticity of the scene and I think belongs in the book.

alex_xita's review against another edition

3.5

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism

Moderate: Child death, Infertility, Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide

jumiofdiamonds's review against another edition

4.5

dark fast-paced

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Fuck.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault

itsabbiejade's review against another edition

3.0

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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📚🥃 Book club book! 🍹📚

Full of excerpts that will make you think it’s a beautiful book, but is actually quite horrifying. 

Maybe the first book I’ve ever read to do horror this well, the vibes were sinister and creepy throughout. 

Lost a star for me because I cannot abide by animal abuse/SA. 

Found maybe at times the translation let it down - not the clearest at times with regards to who was speaking/being spoken to. 

No real plot, a lot of world building horror. Feel like maybe we could’ve just had the world building without any “plot” and I would’ve enjoyed it more. Feel bad for Jasmine :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death

Moderate: Sexual assault

echonade's review against another edition

4.0

dark reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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the pov's progression is disorienting af, but in the best way. makes me wonder if he was planning to do that from the start or... in some way it seems like it?

considering how the whole process of slaughtering "a head" was described, ig it was a long time coming. every stunner has their own secret to calming the head down, huh

great story though, liked the pacing very much and the overall portrayall of these characters. really felt for the mc for the longest time,

but this ending was insane. him just letting go of his persona he build to fit in and appease everyone around him while at the same time finally fully accepting the world he lives in, accepting that he was lying to himself the whole time, that he doesnt care so much about the old world morality. i think hed knew that already when he started in the new old field

 
idk how to put this into words, but things like this make me realise how much we base our opinions, even the ones that should be purely ours, are influenced by society and whats socially acceptable. herd mentality is such a such an annoying thing to deal with, really
also side note the sisters "hobby" is disgusting, but is she really different than marcos?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Slavery, Cannibalism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Violence, Death of parent

stephanierosep19's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Cannibalism

bribreezy123's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Cannibalism

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault