TL;DR: If this is your first "what if people are food" story I think you'll have a great time. However, if you have explored this story genre before its going to be a boring, tedious read. This book honestly just doesn't go hard enough into the disturbing for me.

The book is divided into part one (119 pages) and part two (89 pages). Part one is a walking tour of "this is how the world would work if people were food." When you hear this premises, you already get the idea how it works especially if you have explored this genre before or know anything about how cattle/livestock is processed. So having a walking tour of this idea was boring for me. At parts other readers found "horrifying" I just kept thinking "yes of course that's exactly how that would work" and not really batting an eye. I feel like if this is your first time exploring the people food question, then this part is probably great and satisfyingly disturbing.

Part two is where things start to ramp up. The acts and displays of a man eat man society start to get a little more disturbing but still not disturbing enough to really hit enough to be called "chilling" or "gut-churning." I would say out of the whole book, maybe 2 or 3 sentences really struck a nerve with me.

Some positives: I do think the book is really well written. And while I don't think the themes go well with the setting, exploring "words as a way to disguise reality" was enjoyable enough. I'm not a big fan of how we are kept at arms length from the main character but its not a mark against the book. The book is not preachy regarding the idea of "eating meat is bad" as some other reviewers seems to think. Its honestly not even a theme at all in the book.

Overall, wouldn't recommend. There are other stories that explore this idea better and with more thought.