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A review by kaleidoscopekai
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
challenging
dark
sad
tense
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
4.5
truly horrific. It reminds me of the dystopians I would read in class in highschool. i even feel like i could’ve written an essay for this if i was in school still haha.
i love that every character was deeply unlikable and hypocritical, except of course the ones that were slaves/food/etc.
everything tied together for me in a way that i thought was deeply satisfying, if not also very heartbreaking. I’m personally fine with a book that takes a bit more depressing take towards human nature every now again, although i’m going to need to read something very sweet next to get my chest to stop feeling so heavy. i wished they addressed the scientific issues with cannibalism as well like Kuru, there’s a paragraph that somewhat mentions it but i would have loved to see more problems coming from the cannibalism himself.
i love that every character was deeply unlikable and hypocritical, except of course the ones that were slaves/food/etc.
everything tied together for me in a way that i thought was deeply satisfying, if not also very heartbreaking. I’m personally fine with a book that takes a bit more depressing take towards human nature every now again, although i’m going to need to read something very sweet next to get my chest to stop feeling so heavy. i wished they addressed the scientific issues with cannibalism as well like Kuru, there’s a paragraph that somewhat mentions it but i would have loved to see more problems coming from the cannibalism himself.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Dementia, Pregnancy, Body horror, Child death, Excrement, Racism, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Sexism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence