 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are talking about Tender is the Flesh by Augustine Basterica. I think I got that right. If not, I'm sure you guys will let me know. This book came highly highly recommended by my friend Tracy Robinson. Everything she suggests I absolutely adore. I don't know what it is about. Now we tend to disagree on things we dislike sometimes, but everything that she has enjoyed, I have enjoyed. The... This book is no different. It's absolutely fantastic. I... I want... I don't know why I want to say this. I want to put this up front. This is kind of like Soilent Green. But you know right up front that Soilent Green is people. It is a book about legalized cannibals. It has loads and loads of gore and violence and very disturbing stuff. But before we get into the body of the review, I'm going to give you trigger warning for rape and animal abuse. Let's get on with the review. Okay, so we in this book we follow Marcos who works at the local processing plant and his father has dementia. His wife left him. He's in a bad way. But on top of that the world has gone absolutely crazy. Not like roving bands of maniacs or anything, but they have legalized cannibalism because a disease has made animals inedible. So they have gone to human beings that are now being farmed. I guess it is. These human beings are not treated like human beings. They're treated like cattle. The women especially are treated absolutely horribly. There's a darkness here that I enjoy and that I appreciate. So that I don't want to give away too much. There's so much great stuff in this book. And it's harder for me to review the books that I love. I absolutely love. I'm giving this one five stars if you couldn't tell already. It's harder for me to talk about these books because I tend to focus more on criticisms. Here I have absolutely no criticisms whatsoever. The book is fantastic from beginning to end. It has the best final line I have read since Pet Cemetery. My jaw hit the floor. Now Pet Cemetery isn't really a twist ending. It's just a wonderful, wonderful final line. In this one it just hits like a brick. The very last line of the book is just way, what? It completely changes the tone of the book. In fact, I'd love to reread it to see. You think something specific about the main character. Like we're following this dude and he's going to do these things or do certain things and it's the complete opposite. I really, really enjoyed that. As far as the dread, pacing, and characters that I look for in every horror novel, the dread is great. I had no idea what was going on. I was on the edge of my seat all the time. The characters were fantastic, especially the father, Marcos himself. Everybody that you met, you could care about or you could at least understand them. I like that. I like even the supporting characters. It'd be just as important as the main characters. I know I'm weird in that way, but that's how I feel. The supporting characters should feel just as real as the main character. The pacing, I didn't want to put it down. It's fantastic. Also, this book is unscribed. If you're a subscriber, if you're not a subscriber, grab a free trial down there in the doobly-doo. I get a free month. You get a free month. Everybody's happy. In fact, I think you might get two free months. I don't know. Whatever. Anyways, put the links down there. The audiobook, which I tried out also is fantastic. I enjoyed that as well. It's a very, very short read. It blows by very quickly. Like I said, the pacing is great. That's all I really have to say about Tender is The Flesh. Once again, man, it's hard to review positively for me because I focus more on criticisms with this channel. But have you read Tender is The Flesh by Augustine Bestedrica? If you have, let me know down there in the doobly-doo. Let me know whether you loved it, whether you hated it. If you loved it or hated it, let me know why you loved it or hated it so that we can have a discussion. But until next time, I have an E. You have been U. This has been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye.