Hello my lovely readers! This was another strange read. Let's get into it!
SYNOPSIS
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.
Then one day he’s given a a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.
Then one day he’s given a a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
MY THOUGHTS
This book is a clear example of what happens when everything that is backwards becomes the norm and how that can lead people to lose their ever-loving minds.
This book is a clear example of what happens when everything that is backwards becomes the norm and how that can lead people to lose their ever-loving minds.
I wasn't particularly grossed out by this book like so many other readers, because I figured it'd be similar to the scene in the horror film Hostel. Toward the end of the movie, the main character is trying to escape from this dungeon of depravity and we, the audience, see a room where a man is eating delicately eating the leg of a person while classical music is playing in the background and the person is screaming in pain.
Tender is the Flesh was on that level in terms of gore. Some parts of it, I was like "WTF?" but again, I wasn't sickened to the point that I had to put the book down. A book about cannibalism is not going to be fairytales and rainbows. It's going to be gross and disturbing and gore-filled.
This was a dystopian, horror, gore-fest of a novel and again....HELLO, IT'S ABOUT CANNIBALISM. I was expecting lawlessness and depravity, so I wasn't surprised when it came up in the book. The ending made a lot of sense as well. It was an interesting read, but I'm not going to go out and buy it for my bookshelf, simply because it was just OK to me.
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