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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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Misogyny, Excrement, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury
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.