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Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

92 reviews

readwithsian's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Child death, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Slavery, Sexual harassment, Infertility, Emotional abuse, Dementia, Death of parent, Rape, Violence, Miscarriage, Animal death, War, Torture, Colonisation, Body horror, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Gore, Death, Classism, Alcohol, Trafficking, Medical content, Grief, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Abortion, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Mental illness, Suicide, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, and Adult/minor relationship

callixte's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Violence, Gore, Murder, Cannibalism, and Rape

Moderate: Torture, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual violence

Minor: Trafficking, Suicide, and Racism

forestfeyrie's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

screaming!!!!!!!! if you like poppy z brite you will love this. deviant, squeamish and full of cannibalistic terror 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Colonisation, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Fatphobia, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, and Emotional abuse

charlottedejoya's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicide, Torture, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Blood, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Death, Excrement, Grief, and Violence

kvanstrom's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Pregnancy, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Miscarriage, Rape, and Torture

Moderate: Death, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Gore, Excrement, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Racism, Trafficking, Sexual violence, and Vomit

kamryn_grace_'s review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Cannibalism, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Dementia, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

mistawenis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book is excellent, but do not read it. If you feel you must, please look up all content warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child abuse, Murder, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Excrement, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Dementia, Pedophilia, Animal death, Cannibalism, Child death, Gore, and Trafficking

dholivero's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

 In 200 pages, the author is able to construct a realistic dystopia where humanity no longer exists and leaves you questioning how you can keep your own.

In this world, a virus made animal consumption and interaction dangerous so governments replaced animals with marginalized peoples. The story follows Marcos, an executive at a slaughter house, who is both coping with the destruction of his family and the horror of the new world he is living in. 

Bazterrica introduces us to the players and stakeholders in human slaughter and skillfully leaves bread crumbs to instances in our own reality that made her horror possible. While the consumption of human flesh may be unimaginable to most (as it was to me), much of the horror she details in her novel warns what we can do and have done to each other. 

This is one of the best dystopian novels I have read in a long time. Simply focusing on the gore and criticism of the meat industry is failing to understand the full context of Bazterrica’s writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Body horror, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Blood, Dementia, Xenophobia, Animal cruelty, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, and Child death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

colinjames's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This is an allegory. (It is not an allegory for animal cruelty or factory farming). If you do not like allegories (think Animal Farm and Dune) you will not like this book.

Review:

This book. This book. 

This book says so much about so many different things, and I’m still grasping my head around it all. 

The last sentence

“She had the human look of a domesticated animal”

is still confusing me. Especially as to how that’s an answer to

“she could have given us more children”

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A lot of reviews seem to mention some sort of twist ending. I was not at all surprised by the ending. Bazterrica did a masterful job of foreshadowing what would happen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Death, Murder, Confinement, Gore, Animal cruelty, Body horror, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Infertility, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Dementia, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Pregnancy, and Rape

Minor: Addiction

svincent2210's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

3.75

graphic, not for the faint of heart but a great critique

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, Trafficking, Incest, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Alcohol, Infidelity, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Torture, Terminal illness, Stalking, Slavery, Sexual violence, Child death, Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Medical content, Infertility, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Confinement, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Vomit, Violence, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Misogyny, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail