Nilufer Ozmekik's Reviews > Tender Is the Flesh

This is vile, bold, dark, vicious, gory, bloody, disturbing, eerie, volatile, provocative!

Let out your screams! Prepare to sleep with lights on! If you suffer insomnia or still believe in monsters hide under your beds ( I personally recheck my closets and bed before going to bed) this book is not great fit for you ( when I still look my face paler than snow owl and bloodshot eyes make me great candidate for any B rated horror movie star, I absolutely agree to this opinion. Why the hell I chose to read this ?)

As Thomas Hobbes mentioned in his DeCive “That Man to Man is a kind of God; and that Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe.”
Imagine a dystopian world: the animal meat is toxic but it is legal to eat special meat: yes, as you guess cannibalism is approved by government! Hurray! I think Hannibal Lecter may be the president candidate for this forthcoming ominous future!

So human will be categorized into two types: some of them will be feeders as other half of them will be the eaters! Let the hunger games begin!

Marcos is the main character who tries to resist that human massacre, working at the plant but he also witnesses the batshit craziness occurs in front of his eyes with graphic details including women’s massacres including cutting limb, draining blood and shipping process ( don’t you ever dare to read this book at the same day your husband decides to have his BBQ party at the backyard! Oh gross! )

And let’s not forget the cult members visit him to contribute their sacrifices. Marcos tries to be observer without joining this vicious mess destruction, becoming our eyes during this horrifying, bleak, hopeless, dark dystopian journey!

The ending was a quick, unexpected stab in the chest! You keep screaming, trying to gather your wits, close your wide open mouth, slow down your heart rates! WTH!!!

That was true thought provoking, realistic, terrifying story will haunt you for days !

It was challenging, complex, giving you Orwell book vibes including Animal Farm, 1984!
Presenting us pessimistic, wild, bleak, haunting future world. I cannot imagine anything is predicted in those chapters become real! But it can... unfortunately it can... that makes the book one of the most scariest stories you ever read!