A review by pinkfawn
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

From start to finish, this book took me about four hours to read, as much as I wanted to put it down after some parts. This book has very gruesome descriptions of gore and cannibalism and if you cannot handle it, I would skip this one. It was very good, and very sad and bleak. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Child death, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Cannibalism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, and Murder

Moderate: Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Misogyny

Very upsetting to read as a vegan, making the comparisons with the meat and dairy industries in our own reality. If you are especially sensitive to factory farming cruelty, I would find something else to read.