Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

153 reviews

itsjustgrumpy's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

You know what? I expected it to be so much more grotesque with the way people were reviewing it. 

It was sad, seeing someone dove wholeheartedly into an unrequited romance with just selfish intent on the other side. And the building dread that forms in the first few pages just continues to compile til the final line.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore, Sexual content, Vomit, and Pregnancy

0leander's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

The amount of hype around this book gives it certain expectations that it simply didn't meet for me. Decent read, but nothing special

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Miscarriage, Self harm, Vomit, and Pregnancy

slytherinlyss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I appreciated the anecdotal format, I feel it pushed the narrative forward and fast tracked the character development. Eric LaRoca is great at keeping you guessing, whilst simultaneously telling you exactly what’s occurred. This was a dark but fun, queer novella that I would recommend to only a select few; only the worthy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Abortion, and Pregnancy

thomasina's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

sleepylit's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A really good read! Kept me hooked the whole way through. A lot of people dislike it, and I see why, but I love psychological horror like this, so it was right up my alley. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

wlw1tch's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

An intriguing, fast-paced downward spiral with a unique format. Not as shocking as people made it seem but definitely heed the content warnings, it does get graphic!
I wouldn’t go to this book for representation by any means, but the characters’ queerness makes certain parts of the narrative much more compelling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

Minor: Terminal illness and Vomit

All instances of animal death are described in graphic detail,

a salamander

and

a cat

as is one child (infant) death in which

the narrator describes a case she saw on the news wherein a baby is murdered by his brother

alexalily's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Self harm, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

halaagmod's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Ending was very abrupt, little character development, and the "disturbing" things felt they were more there for shock value than to serve any narrative purpose. Still a decent read, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Excrement, and Gaslighting

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

I counted it as "body horror" since I don't know how else to describe it, but there's a scene in which the protagonist

eats a maggot-infested piece of steak, gets violently ill, and gets a tapeworm from it. She thinks that the tapeworm is a "child,"

which explains the "pregnancy" and "miscarriage" tags.

mr_cain's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

underwhelmingly mediocre. each story had a strong premise and each failed to deliver any kind of interesting, tense, or emotional conclusion. The first two were quite gross--i guess for the shock value?--but weren't scary. Just yucky.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage, Blood, and Vomit

autumnwhite's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Injury/Injury detail