A review by hauntedhexgirll
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

2.0

I liked the concept of the book, but there just wasn’t enough world building for me. I feel like there was wasted time learning about characters that didn’t matter when we could’ve gotten more about the transition, more about how the general population took the transition, more about the government conspiracies and such. I wanted more from it.

I also feel like we were supposed to be rooting for the main character but I couldn’t because Jasmine essentially had the mind of a child and couldn’t consent to anything, so he was continuously a villain. Which I’m fine with the main character being a villain, I just wish we would have gotten more depth to the character in that type of way.

This just felt like it was an unpolished unfinished story to me.

I did like the “twist” ending though.