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A review by kadota
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
5.0
OH MY LORD!! My first reaction to the ending was, "WT*" And I seriously had to re-read the last page, exact three times to make myself believe that the ending was what I read not imagined. This is my first dystopian novel, and I must say, I loved it!
This book is a provocative, mind-boggling, riveting, engaging, intriguing as well as shocking and with a razzle dazzle of upsetting. I have words but I can't explain how unhinged I feel right now. This book will give you a kernel of hope to hold onto, but will crush you further into the darkness.
As you know the plot, basically it's of a dystopian society where a virus has infected the animals and now the humans have to turn to a special meat which is basically human meat, and how this is normalized. The main character is Marcos who is in this business of slaughtering humans, everything is just the way it is until the day a female specimen is handed over to him, which turns his life almost upside down.
For me, Tender Is The Flesh, wasn't that grotesque as I have heard, it is kind of repulsive in the beginning, but again not that much visual except for the fleshing part of humans. The thing of great importance in this novel for me was highlighting the reality of us; humans. Human who is the most complex and intelligent of the all creatures who also is a dangerously cunning creature, and a kind who keeps you guessing of what the next path would it walk on. It also highlights the dilemma our society today suffers from, humans driven by desires, unfulfillment, hunger for power, greed for money, fueled by selfishness committing atrocities to other kinds and his own. How humans can go to extents to have what they want, what they can't have, what they want to be fulfilled with. The insatiable hunger for fulfillment and the thirst for want, to satisfy both of it, humans have capability of doing things one can't even imagine. This book is true on parts that humans will do anything to strive and survive, but also there is this thing that HUMANS can adapt but have trouble accepting, which also makes them do things that aren't meant to be done, to achieve the unfulfilled.
This part of human beings intrigues me a lot, and this book gave me a lot to think about our kind.
Also, I loved the third person narration, I haven't ever read a third person narration novel, as far as I can remember, and really it was beautiful ironically speaking. And the author penned down a great story, a deep and prompting.
The characters were all in their worlds, lost, busy and trying to survive, to live, to fulfill the emptiness lodged inside them, which made them real, they were portrayed in such a manner that one could say, "Yes, they are real, we have met them, or maybe we are them."
This book is a provocative, mind-boggling, riveting, engaging, intriguing as well as shocking and with a razzle dazzle of upsetting. I have words but I can't explain how unhinged I feel right now. This book will give you a kernel of hope to hold onto, but will crush you further into the darkness.
As you know the plot, basically it's of a dystopian society where a virus has infected the animals and now the humans have to turn to a special meat which is basically human meat, and how this is normalized. The main character is Marcos who is in this business of slaughtering humans, everything is just the way it is until the day a female specimen is handed over to him, which turns his life almost upside down.
For me, Tender Is The Flesh, wasn't that grotesque as I have heard, it is kind of repulsive in the beginning, but again not that much visual except for the fleshing part of humans. The thing of great importance in this novel for me was highlighting the reality of us; humans. Human who is the most complex and intelligent of the all creatures who also is a dangerously cunning creature, and a kind who keeps you guessing of what the next path would it walk on. It also highlights the dilemma our society today suffers from, humans driven by desires, unfulfillment, hunger for power, greed for money, fueled by selfishness committing atrocities to other kinds and his own. How humans can go to extents to have what they want, what they can't have, what they want to be fulfilled with. The insatiable hunger for fulfillment and the thirst for want, to satisfy both of it, humans have capability of doing things one can't even imagine. This book is true on parts that humans will do anything to strive and survive, but also there is this thing that HUMANS can adapt but have trouble accepting, which also makes them do things that aren't meant to be done, to achieve the unfulfilled.
This part of human beings intrigues me a lot, and this book gave me a lot to think about our kind.
Also, I loved the third person narration, I haven't ever read a third person narration novel, as far as I can remember, and really it was beautiful ironically speaking. And the author penned down a great story, a deep and prompting.
The characters were all in their worlds, lost, busy and trying to survive, to live, to fulfill the emptiness lodged inside them, which made them real, they were portrayed in such a manner that one could say, "Yes, they are real, we have met them, or maybe we are them."