Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

67 reviews

neeki's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

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A future where consumption of human meat is legalized after all animal meat is infected by a virus that makes it poisonous for humans. We follow Marcos, a manager at a human meat processing plant, who's fighting with his own inner demons to keep his sanity in a world where humanity has ceased to exist.

The horror in this book is definitely very descriptive, nauseating, shocking, and will make your stomach turn. At its core, the book is openly a metaphoric representation of social injustice, animal cruelty in the meat industry, human trafficking, gender violence happening in our world.

If the world keeps on progressing the way it is, surely we'll devour each other one way or the other. No doubt, one of the most disturbing and bizarre books that I've read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Violence, Slavery, and Sexual harassment

annabel_blakey's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Death of parent, Excrement, Grief, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Trafficking

clevernamehere's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

A slow build regarding the plot, but the last chapter or two alone made it totally worth the read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Murder, Pregnancy, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death of parent, Dementia, and Misogyny

lovelylilelle's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

teeny_bee's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

This story was dark, and honestly didn’t interrogate the problematic themes of this text. Very fast paced, and great writing but the lack of interrogation ruined it for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexism

pilarr's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit

thegr8estangell's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Very disgusting story. It has some interesting commentary on the meat industry, overpopulation, government propaganda, and what it means to considered human. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Gore, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Vomit, Trafficking, Torture, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Pregnancy, and Murder

Moderate: Abortion, Car accident, Death of parent, Excrement, Homophobia, and Xenophobia

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