Tender is the Flesh

I was recommended this book, it had an interesting concept and one that is fairly vile, the beginning on the book was well detailed and gave good descriptions of what was happening. The story it’s self could have been better and more gripping, the ending was expected. Was worth reading but was expecting it to be worse that it was … I feel if the story line had been better the whole concept would have come to life better, it’s our own imaginations that create the disturbance of what has been written about and the potential vile nature of this book.

This is not your usual narrative tale, yes it has a plot but all books do. It is reminiscent of World War Z, a type of story told to simply build a dystopian world to the reader—and it does this very well. Once you get passed the brutality (which you do, eventually becoming desensitised which is an amazing mirrored concept of the ideology within the book itself), the world being built flowers on the pages. It almost leaves you wanting for more, for more of a plot, for more of this world, as grotesque and abhorrent as it may be. The allure of the dystopian is a beast of its own. Excellent read, short captivating chapters; sensational experience.

thought provoking indeed