Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

774 reviews

laurensbookshelf_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Dementia, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Medical content, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

miranda_lynn1234's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

1.0

What the actual fuck.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

lordofdisorder's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Murder, and Pregnancy

vero_is_strangerthanfiction's review against another edition

dark tense

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Infertility, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

petr1chor's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Boy moms are the apex of horror. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Trafficking, and Cannibalism

bunnivie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

as i was reading this book, i thought that the author of this book decided to add such gruesome things into this book to shock the readers than to prove an actual lesson. by the end of this book, you realize that there was no lesson. the closest you can say the lesson was that "human beings are all awful people who want to consume and murder one another." overall, this book was essentially pointless. the idea was good, but the execution was awful and unbearable. i'm glad to be done with this terrible book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Gore, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Child death, Rape, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility and Trafficking

smolfem's review against another edition

too triggering

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kendalliskiwii's review against another edition

2.0

just not the genre for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Slavery, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Trafficking, and Cannibalism

tealightfultomes's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

Excellent writing, had me absolutely gripped and finishing the book in one day. So disturbing I honestly think half of the reason I read it so quickly was to get it over with, but I couldn't look away. It was like a really horrific car crash, in book form.

Not for the faint hearted, if you have any triggers at all I'd strongly advise to approach with caution, if at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

nomatophobia's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I am a big fan of cannibalism in media when it is a metaphor for something but this was a brand new take on it that took all the beauty out of it. If this were written by a man, I wouldn't be rating it this high. It's impressive how much of a man's mindset this really told. Marcos never tries to justify his wrongdoings. He knows he does bad things so the text makes you rely on him to be good. It's not some slow decent into madness, you just slowly realize he's just like everyone else. Losing all respect for the narrator by the end of the book really makes you feel hopeless about this universe. Like it was your choice to read a horror novel so now you have to sit with it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking and Cannibalism