From a common sense media review of Tender Morsels. (And, yeah, I really did order a copy.)
Note to the publishers and makers of best-children’s-books-of-the-year lists: What were you thinking?! In what possible way could you have considered this a children’s or young adult book? It opens with a sex act, and then in the first hundred pages the main character, a young girl, is repeatedly raped by her father, repeatedly gets pregnant, and then is repeatedly given drugs to cause horrible miscarriages, graphically described. After her loathsome father finally has his head bashed in by a horse, and a scene in which she examines his penis and wonders how it could have caused so much trouble, she gives birth alone. Then she is gang raped by five local teens, gets pregnant again, and contemplates killing her baby. Near the end of the book those five boys, now grown, are sodomized into unconsciousness. In between we get bestiality and some gruesome violence.
