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Tender is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

published: 2017, read: 12/4/23
224 pages, genre: Horror
rating: 6.5/10, normalized: 6.111/10
-0.685σ worse than average
-0.697σ or -0.564/10 worse than average in Horror genre
-0.26σ or -0.057/10 worse than average recommended by Jessika
Recommended by: Jessika

there's no ethical calculus in the dystopian future this book takes place in. It's a bunch of drive-by scenes of shocking/grotesque imagery which are suppose to be jarring and "really make the reader think" about the commoditization of modern society, but because none of the characters within are even internally consistent, the conclusion the author pushes the reader towards is "they can't be reasoned with, they are wild animals, they need to be exterminated" which in and of itself isn't even an ironic aha by the end of the book. Diction/Syntax mid because of translation, and the torturous imagery was quickly desensitizing. If it was much longer without becoming much more sophisticated, it would score poorly

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