himpersonal 's review for:

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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OMG. I’m going to guess the author is a vegetarian or vegan? No idea, but if I was a carnivore or omnivore, I might think twice the next time I’m faced with meat. This is the kind of book I’d love to teach in high school. Definitely will need to reread it many times. Have recommended it to all my reading friends.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic