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A review by jagoda_readsbooks
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
I can't really rate this because I wouldn't know where to even begin.
It's certainly not a book I would recommend to anyone I know and it was way more explicit and brutal than I thought it would be to be honest, since I went in nearly completely blind, only knowing that the main topic would be structural cannibalism.
But it will stay in my thoughts a long time and it has a lot of themes you can talk about. I also actually liked that there was no real moral to take away from it because the main protagonist himself is part of the system and it's exclusively told from his pov. So you have to interpret everything yourself.
For a lot of the book I kinda felt like I should feel sorry for the protagonist, but in the end I'm very happy that I didn't 😅
It's certainly not a book I would recommend to anyone I know and it was way more explicit and brutal than I thought it would be to be honest, since I went in nearly completely blind, only knowing that the main topic would be structural cannibalism.
But it will stay in my thoughts a long time and it has a lot of themes you can talk about. I also actually liked that there was no real moral to take away from it because the main protagonist himself is part of the system and it's exclusively told from his pov. So you have to interpret everything yourself.
For a lot of the book I kinda felt like I should feel sorry for the protagonist, but in the end I'm very happy that I didn't 😅
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Classism, Sexual violence, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Slavery, Death, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Cannibalism, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Torture, and Child death