Tender is the Flesh has left me with some extremely mixed feelings. Firstly, as a huge horror fan, sick depravity is like breathing for me. I'm all about anything remotely dark regardless of the form and I find the psychology behind it fascinating. So a story surrounding a world essentially going ALL IN on meat, i.e human meat, farming and breeding humans for food and personal pleasure, I was intrigued by where it would go. 

Unfortunately, the story doesn't give us much weight to the main character surrounding his backstory, him personally, and when it does, it feels underwhelming? And it comes and goes really quickly, as we head straight back to corrupt corporate business meetings and farming. There are a couple of shocks and surprises along the way when Marcos is gifted a "specimen" that helps keep things boiling away from his work, but as time goes on you're wondering "Where is this going?" 

It does however lead to quite the shocking end twist which I'm still thinking about. But ultimately as a whole, Tender is the Flesh offers some enough pros for horror fans to want to seek it out, but cons that leave you feeling underwhelmed from the story overall, despite the thought-provoking subject matter and themes on misogyny and society. Definitely a fascinating read though that will have me thinking about it for days. 

Ok I'm hungry now, anybody got any meat? :)