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JoeMo
Tender Is the Flesh | Agustina Bazterrica
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This dystopian novel in which cannibalism is legalized due to a virus making animal meat poisonous to humans. The scary thing is I could see something like this possibly happening. This is a dark story and I‘ll admit the characters aren‘t really likable….but the story was unique enough with effective world-building to the point it kept my attention with a twist or two I wasn‘t expecting at the end!

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DoonTheGoon
Tender Is the Flesh | Agustina Bazterrica
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At one point during my reading, I put the text down, turned to my spouse, and said "This is a profoundly f*cked up book." That's about all that needs to be said.

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RamsFan1963
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26/2025 Cannibalism. It brings up horrible images, Hannibal Lector and his fava beans, but humans and animals have a long history of cannibalism, for survival, for medicinal reasons, for rituals, for conquest, and sadly for pleasure in some. Fortunately, the author sticks to the scientific reasons, and isn't lured into the sensational aspect with serial killers like Jeffery Dahmer and Ed Gein.
4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ #Read2025

IMASLOWREADER ohhh this sounds interesting 3mo
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NickDaReader
Tender Is the Flesh | Agustina Bazterrica
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Mehso-so

In my opinion, this book was overhyped. I felt like instead of creating a great story for this dystopian world, the author focused mostly on how to make the next chapter more disturbing/disgusting than the last. Although I didn‘t completely hate it, I didn‘t love it either 🤷🏾‍♂️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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BooksNBowls
Tender Is the Flesh | Agustina Bazterrica
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Panpan

This borderlines violence for the sake of violence. Maybe that‘s THE POINT, but I‘m just not pessimistic enough for this I guess. Disturbing. 2/5

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Hilary427
Tender Is the Flesh | Agustina Mara Bazterrica
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This book. This Book! OH MY GOD THIS BOOK! I devoured it (see what I did there 😝). Read it in a day and can‘t stop thinking about it. (57)
⭐️: 4.75/5

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Bookwomble
Eat the Rich | Sarah Gailey
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"I can't believe I'm doing this."

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

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KotaK
Tender Is the Flesh | Agustina Mara Bazterrica
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Its a dystopian novel, for that note it does a good job of painting a bleak alternative society. It‘s descriptive of certain scenes which definitely impacted me. A non filtered book, with an ending that accompanies the bleakness of the setting itself.

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ImperfectCJ
Tender Is the Flesh | Agustina Mara Bazterrica
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I almost stopped reading this early on, but I found I quickly became acclimated and was able to keep reading this strange novel that's like a bizzarro Charlotte's Web. I'm rarely satisfied with endings, but Bazterrica sticks the landing with this one. It explores manipulation, feeling stuck in one's situation, what it means to be human, the convoluted justifications we give ourselves for atrocious actions. Kind of perfect for election season.

ImperfectCJ I went vegan for a year after reading the tagged. This one leaves me with a similar feeling but for different reasons. (Veganism didn't agree with me, so I'm unlikely to re-embrace it this time, at least for more than a few days.) 7mo
ImperfectCJ The other day, I was on the highway and passed a big sign for a new townhouse complex called Heirloom Farms. It is a quite unsettling name for a housing development after reading this novel. 7mo
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