Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

186 reviews

jemmers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book was cruel and lean. Starts off at a moderate pace and builds to a fast, brutal conclusion. It’ll sit with you. The world and characters are horrible and I couldn’t look away.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Rape, Infertility, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual violence, Animal death, Dementia, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Medical content, Blood, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Body horror, Trafficking, Torture, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Death of parent, Genocide, Child death, Gaslighting, Cannibalism, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

akaspiderlily's review against another edition

dark slow-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? No

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Abortion, Body horror, Child death, Domestic abuse, Torture, Violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, and Trafficking

katierosecrane's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book pushes your mind to a dark world. Excellently written. Extremely dark. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Trafficking, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Slavery, Animal death, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cursing, Alcohol, Confinement, Genocide, Infidelity, Torture, Infertility, and Violence

divinereader's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Animal cruelty, Child death, Confinement, Genocide, Gore, Cannibalism, Death, Animal death, Body horror, Murder, Torture, Blood, Slavery, Violence, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Infertility, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Terminal illness

Minor: Car accident

catchingabreaktoday's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Genocide, Body horror, Cannibalism, and Death

bookmom91's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

This book is an amazing and gripping read. Once you start you are transported to an alternate world you can't leave till the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Cannibalism, Slavery, War, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Genocide, Trafficking, and Rape

a_stroberry's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Cannibalism, and Slavery

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Infertility, Toxic relationship, Death, Genocide, Self harm, Domestic abuse, Classism, and Dementia

blueyapologist's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Holy shit dude. This book had tension and twists and I have never felt a stronger urge to shower after reading something 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child death, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Torture, Drug use, Animal death, Addiction, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Blood, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Chronic illness, Body horror, Dementia, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Infertility, Grief, Gore, Cursing, Confinement, Classism, Cannibalism, Alcoholism, Murder, Misogyny, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Racism, Genocide, Car accident, and Animal cruelty

leah_hope's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

me and the homies hate marcos.  but seriously that ending.  it felt like i had been stabbed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Genocide, Grief, Cannibalism, Trafficking, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

ma_rit_za's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I started off the new year with a horror fiction suspense read. And OMG 🤯🤯🤯!! I just finished this audiobook because I couldn’t get enough or listen fast enough. Tender is the Flesh grabs you from the get go and you are sucked in almost immediately. This is not for you if you easily get grossed out, descriptions can be graphic, violent and just plain twisted. The ending though 😱🤯🫢. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Torture, Cannibalism, Death, Murder, Pregnancy, Violence, Genocide, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cannibalism