Reviews tagging 'Lesbophobia'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

86 reviews

caroliiineb's review against another edition

dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Lesbophobia

angeldaft's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

No rating. I don't know what I think about this one. I don't really have any strong feelings. I would recommend you check all the content warnings before you read, I just read the resumed ones and was not prepared for some... Disgusting descriptions. 
Listened to it while cooking meat, didn't eat it after I was done.

Edit: this story has grown on me. I've been reading more of LaRocca's work and I'm really liking this kind of horror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Lesbophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

0ldoini's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

1.5

Beautiful cover, ultimately a very boring book that doesn’t live up to the hype nor is as disturbing as made out. No character progression.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Death of parent

pasavedra's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

doomluz's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This was pretty good and gross.

I thought I knew where it was gonna go based on the S&M relationship, but it was different than I expected.
The animal killing and mention of baby death kinda put me off. I also hate bugs, but the ending was great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Lesbophobia

intestinal worms, eating rancid food

salvatorer2's review against another edition

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

The book was really distressing to read.

The detailed accounts of maiming, animal death, and recounted gruesome events from the news will probably stay with you long after. However, there was some missed oppotunities. I feel that the rabbit eating their babies was unneeded, as well as the priest running over the cat, because neither of them add anything to the themes of the story.

They were unnecessary. Just for shock value. Other than that, it was okay. Idk if im gonna read it again, but we’ll see

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

morgansb's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

1.75

This was unpleasant. I don't disagree with the premise of a bizarre D/S relationship, but the pace at which the relationship progressed was confusing. I also didn't think that it ended well, or resolved itself. This book was quite short, and for that it suffers from being annoyingly incomplete. I'm confused as to why the correspondence is part of a police report, because this also does not get touched upon. Overall, the big shocker was more gross than anything, but weirdly enough there was an online gross out blog called "blowfly"(huge trigger warnings for body horror, trauma,sex, blood , etc) which honestly reminded me a lot of this, so I wasn't the most original idea. I would be surprised if the author didn't gather inspiration from that to be honest. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Vomit, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness and Murder

Minor: Death, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Blood, Excrement, Grief, and Abandonment

faeriequeenlauren's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

2.5

Was it effective in making to me want to stab my ear drums so I didn’t have to listen to any more of the depraved things contained in this book? Sure, I guess. Did I have a fun time while listening to the audiobook? Absolutely not. 

PSA: please read TW before picking up this book!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Lesbophobia, and Abandonment

cianarae's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

Too rushed and too focused on being shocking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

spcandybars's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

1.75

I wanted to like this book so much more than I did. I can tell that what really took me out of this was the epistolary format. There’s absolutely no relationship development - you can’t even tell they’re becoming enamored with each other before it jumps to the unreasonable.

 I understand that both of these people are clearly mentally ill but even before the severity of that was revealed to us, I couldn’t follow along with how fast they were moving. If the initial messages had a flirtier tone or something that actually hinted towards attraction or trying to know each other, I could have been more on board but they barely said anything. If I could sense more attraction in the early interactions, I feel like I would be less irritated by the progression of events and more invested in the breakdown of the characters. 

The second half is decent -

I really wasn’t expecting that she would die by her own hand and it’s interesting because the way it’s written makes you think “oh this girl is so dumb, she deserves to get killed if she just walks back into this after seeing how sick of a person this is”. It was interesting to discover that she was actually the more depraved one.

The concept is interesting, I just don’t think this format was executed in the way it needed to be for this story to be as engrossing as the author probably wanted it to be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Suicide, Medical content, and Lesbophobia