Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

108 reviews

thelibraryofanolive's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual violence, Torture, Excrement, Murder, Body horror, Chronic illness, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Dementia, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Confinement, Classism, Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death of parent, Trafficking, Violence, Alcohol, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Medical trauma, Cursing, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Abortion, Kidnapping, Medical content, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, and Drug use

mercedesmosley's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

By far the most intense book I've ever read. Had a hard time putting it down. I will say though, it is not for those with a weak stomach. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child death, Infertility, Violence, Mental illness, Death, Body horror, Sexual content, Medical content, Blood, Gore, Torture, Infidelity, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

akaspiderlily's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

To be frank, it’s a terrible read. It is highly disturbing, while offering no real substance outside of its graphic detailed description of a cannibalistic future society. There is a fetishization at play almost, and the main character is a violent, raping, sociopath, whose only “human” characteristic lies in the fact that he does not enjoy eating human meat like “normal” with everyone else. Additionally, I found the truly horrific parts of it entirely too pathetically dismissive of the history this society would have had, as if caging humans, breeding them, hunting them, experimenting on them, and eating them, was not something practiced by white conquistadors and slavers on African and indigenous people. There is a literal mention of one of the villains in the story having a picture of a white colonizer with human heads in Africa as a point of reverence, yet only this present-day dystopia is horrific? Terrible. 0 stars. This is why I stay away from white authors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Abortion, Body horror, Child death, Domestic abuse, Torture, Violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, and Trafficking

xeno_reads's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

A thought provoking look into a mirror of what humanity can be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Trafficking, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Physical abuse, Excrement, Infidelity, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Pregnancy, Vomit, Ableism, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Animal death, Abandonment, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Blood, Infertility, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Child death, Body horror, Torture, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Sexual assault, Violence, Murder, Slavery, Classism, and Sexual harassment

leah_hope's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

me and the homies hate marcos.  but seriously that ending.  it felt like i had been stabbed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Genocide, Grief, Cannibalism, Trafficking, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

candiemarsh's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This was a dark, dark read, not for the faint-hearted. Love the dystopian feel to it, and the descriptive writing helped in enhancing the imagination. Smooth read with adequate length chapters. I enjoyed it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness and Torture

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Sexual violence

vbarsi's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

The ending was disappointing and somewhat confusing considering all the character development I felt that Marcos made

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Slavery, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Physical abuse, Animal death, Torture, Body horror, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy and Grief

Minor: Child death, Dementia, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Racism

reillym's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Demented and beautiful. I had chills at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Pedophilia, Rape, Emotional abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Violence, Trafficking, Torture, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Forced institutionalization, and Confinement

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Dementia, and Excrement

smolhandsdan's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Slavery, and Torture

Moderate: Grief, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, and Child death

bugle's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Cannibalism, Confinement, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Torture, Rape, Violence, Slavery, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, and Mental illness