Ugh I hate there being so many unknowns left…like yes he got rid of the jasmine “problem”.. but now they have this random baby. Where will they tell people they got it? If they try to pretend Cecelia had the baby, their family would know that wasn’t true..Is Cecelia’s mom loyal enough to keep the secret of her son-in-law having sex with a head? I guess given his job he could conjure up some fake paperwork saying that Jasmine was artificially inseminated..but I just wish there would have been a few paragraphs of Marcos and Cecelia discussing what they planned to do going forward. Or what would have been really crazy is if Marcos revealed that he already had all of the paperwork ready/the cover up planned out.. proving that he really had just been using Jasmine the entire time when most readers thought he had fallen in love.
I am so glad you reviewed this one, I went in expecting an anti-meat eating manifesto, and got so much more (and a little of that too though :D) I agree this was an easy 5/5. Oh I have to talk about the absolutely genius framing in this book that made me immediately do a second read. But it's spoilers so I'm going to try to hide it below the "read more" . . . . . SPOILERS The entire book we're lead to believe that Marcos has some moral code, that he finds the treatment and consumption of humans to be bad, evil. He outright talks about how much he despises the people he meets that are in this industry, and I think as a reader, we're thinking how terrible these people are because of the human meat thing, but if you go through I don't believe Marcos ever once outright states that's where his issues with these people come from, at the end when he kills Jasmine, I immediately flipped through the book and realized there were more clear reasons why Marcos hated all of these people, for example when he tells his sister she disgusts him, the reader thinks its due to the mans he is butchering, but we've also just gone over how Marcos feels like his siter mistreated his father, and there is something like this for every character he has negative interactions/thoughts with. In the end I don't think Marcos ever had a problem with the human meat trade, and his issues with the world stemmed from the grief of a broken marriage and a lost child, and just dealing with the sort of terrible self absorbed people you meet in any industry. I think re-reading this book with the ending in mind recolors most of Marcos's interactions and I found it to be genius. But that's just my reading and it could be way off :D
I think you’re spot on with that. At the end I was looking back at all his interactions and yes, it seems like it all boils down to him being depressed about his marital situation, child and father.
Very rarely do I have one of those, mind blown I have to immediately riffle through the book seeking different passages moments. What a brilliantly written book.
Ugh I hate there being so many unknowns left…like yes he got rid of the jasmine “problem”.. but now they have this random baby. Where will they tell people they got it? If they try to pretend Cecelia had the baby, their family would know that wasn’t true..Is Cecelia’s mom loyal enough to keep the secret of her son-in-law having sex with a head? I guess given his job he could conjure up some fake paperwork saying that Jasmine was artificially inseminated..but I just wish there would have been a few paragraphs of Marcos and Cecelia discussing what they planned to do going forward. Or what would have been really crazy is if Marcos revealed that he already had all of the paperwork ready/the cover up planned out.. proving that he really had just been using Jasmine the entire time when most readers thought he had fallen in love.
I am so glad you reviewed this one, I went in expecting an anti-meat eating manifesto, and got so much more (and a little of that too though :D) I agree this was an easy 5/5. Oh I have to talk about the absolutely genius framing in this book that made me immediately do a second read. But it's spoilers so I'm going to try to hide it below the "read more"
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The entire book we're lead to believe that Marcos has some moral code, that he finds the treatment and consumption of humans to be bad, evil. He outright talks about how much he despises the people he meets that are in this industry, and I think as a reader, we're thinking how terrible these people are because of the human meat thing, but if you go through I don't believe Marcos ever once outright states that's where his issues with these people come from, at the end when he kills Jasmine, I immediately flipped through the book and realized there were more clear reasons why Marcos hated all of these people, for example when he tells his sister she disgusts him, the reader thinks its due to the mans he is butchering, but we've also just gone over how Marcos feels like his siter mistreated his father, and there is something like this for every character he has negative interactions/thoughts with.
In the end I don't think Marcos ever had a problem with the human meat trade, and his issues with the world stemmed from the grief of a broken marriage and a lost child, and just dealing with the sort of terrible self absorbed people you meet in any industry. I think re-reading this book with the ending in mind recolors most of Marcos's interactions and I found it to be genius.
But that's just my reading and it could be way off :D
I think you’re spot on with that. At the end I was looking back at all his interactions and yes, it seems like it all boils down to him being depressed about his marital situation, child and father.
Very rarely do I have one of those, mind blown I have to immediately riffle through the book seeking different passages moments. What a brilliantly written book.
Too dark for me, but appreciate your review!
It was insane. So glad I went into it blind.
Same very messed up. Very good.