A review by cxffee_addxct
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

4.0

This book was the first one in a very long time that I had to put down and read something else for a while so I could process and move on from what I'd read here. Dystopian novels that actually require you to take a step back and think deeply about the world the characters are stuck in and what could've happened to lead society to that place are always good reads, and this one took that to a new level. The amount of apathetic distance that people were able to make in this book to find no issue in consuming and using human meat, "leather," etc. was hard to digest at first, and even after taking a step back before 'part 2' and letting myself read something more lighthearted during my 5 day break, some of the things that are so normal in this book were a tough pill to swallow. Anything that can illicit that much of a reaction in a reader is an automatic amazing book.