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A review by mybestfriendisabook
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
4.0
wow this is the most fucked up thing i’ve ever read. i almost DNFed at the start bc i didn’t think i could stomach it, i was very on guard and unsettled. if it was all gore, i definitely wouldn’t have made it. the ending… phew wow didn’t see that coming but it all makes sense now.
how the slaughterhouse is described and how the humans are referred is just like what happens to the animals that are bred for “food” - having seen footage of these practices, it was very very disturbing to imagine humans in their place.
i hope that readers can realize that the treatment of humans in this book is literally a reality today for nonhuman animals - pure pure horror and nothing you’d wish upon anyone.
how the slaughterhouse is described and how the humans are referred is just like what happens to the animals that are bred for “food” - having seen footage of these practices, it was very very disturbing to imagine humans in their place.
i hope that readers can realize that the treatment of humans in this book is literally a reality today for nonhuman animals - pure pure horror and nothing you’d wish upon anyone.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Rape, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Death, Child death, Confinement, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, Slavery, and Torture