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horrorgirlfriends's review against another edition
the cover art is lovely, but doesn’t it doesn’t make up for undeveloped characters, gross-out “gore”/“horror” (rotting meat and tapeworm, i’m looking at you), nor does make it survive the pitfall of lesbians being written by a man. or the breakneck speed at which the relationship “develops”.
and this is personal. but on which one of god’s green earths is “wanting to be pregnant” a driving motivational force for a lesbian. but maybe that’s just me (a wlw)
but the cover art is very lovely.
and this is personal. but on which one of god’s green earths is “wanting to be pregnant” a driving motivational force for a lesbian. but maybe that’s just me (a wlw)
but the cover art is very lovely.
tdarnley's review against another edition
3.0
I don’t know what I expected but that was a wild ride?? I only gave it a 3 because it falls short in a few areas I would’ve liked to know more about. It feels very torture for tortures sake at times.
jonezeemcgee's review against another edition
3.0
2.75
Definite Trigger warnings for abuse and animal cruelty.
Very disturbing. Good writing style, but not the most fleshed-out short work of fiction. I had high hopes for this piece of work. I went into it having a vague notion of what it was about. Sites like 4Chan and Reddit are peppered with lost fools willing to heap all forms of cruelty and torture upon themselves at the behest of others (either for the karma, the infamy, or some other deeply traumatic psychological reasoning), so it is not as if this isn't plausible in some capacity. I guess I hope this would go beyond the sharing of disturbing little anecdotes sandwiched between correspondence. I hoped maybe it would touch more on the push and pull between participants. I feel that the anecdotes were thrown in to add to the horror of the story, and it is clear this was done for the shock factor. I find it to be the cheapest form of horror to shock for the sake of shocking, even in short fiction, instead of paying close attention to what you can accomplish in your limited narrative. There is a way to shock while still creating a full enriching story in a short page count. I think why I am a little harder on this than other short slash em' horrors I have read is I could tell the author could do so much more, and this clearly inched so close to the edge of being an iconic work of short fiction.
Definite Trigger warnings for abuse and animal cruelty.
Very disturbing. Good writing style, but not the most fleshed-out short work of fiction. I had high hopes for this piece of work. I went into it having a vague notion of what it was about. Sites like 4Chan and Reddit are peppered with lost fools willing to heap all forms of cruelty and torture upon themselves at the behest of others (either for the karma, the infamy, or some other deeply traumatic psychological reasoning), so it is not as if this isn't plausible in some capacity. I guess I hope this would go beyond the sharing of disturbing little anecdotes sandwiched between correspondence. I hoped maybe it would touch more on the push and pull between participants. I feel that the anecdotes were thrown in to add to the horror of the story, and it is clear this was done for the shock factor. I find it to be the cheapest form of horror to shock for the sake of shocking, even in short fiction, instead of paying close attention to what you can accomplish in your limited narrative. There is a way to shock while still creating a full enriching story in a short page count. I think why I am a little harder on this than other short slash em' horrors I have read is I could tell the author could do so much more, and this clearly inched so close to the edge of being an iconic work of short fiction.
kadertader09's review against another edition
2.0
This book was definitely.. something. I’ve never been so disturbed while reading. I have to give this book credit for making me physically sick to my stomach. Couldn’t put it down until I finished it though.
branwynnemay's review against another edition
Pretty interesting to start and then halfway in I realized there is probably going to be cannibalism. No spoiler- I’m just not going to risk reading about that. I also checked out other reviews and feel confident about being happier in the world just stopping here, haha.
elfabllax's review against another edition
4.0
what a book. this was disturbingly good.
i read this for 3 hours straight. i swear i had a brief fit of hyperventilation. damn. reading this may require therapy!
i read this for 3 hours straight. i swear i had a brief fit of hyperventilation. damn. reading this may require therapy!
galokarp's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
3.0
This epistolary novella gets you hooked the second you pick it up. You feel like an archivist junkie sorting through emails and text messages and, like Zoe, you too are enthralled to see how far this authoritarian relationship will go.
However the grotesque ending shows the limitations of such a short story: there is little to no build up to the tipping point when an apparently benign submissive kink turns into pure madness. Likewise, LaRocca makes little use of his epistolary medium and offers no gap for the reader to fill.
In the end, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is sadly unambitious. To
However the grotesque ending shows the limitations of such a short story: there is little to no build up to the tipping point when an apparently benign submissive kink turns into pure madness. Likewise, LaRocca makes little use of his epistolary medium and offers no gap for the reader to fill.
In the end, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is sadly unambitious. To
jestersprivilege's review against another edition
1.0
Maybe I missed the point. Maybe this one went over my head.
But there is quite literally nothing good between the pages of this piece. Animals in distress, described violence against children, and another unfortunate case of a man writing an absolute train wreck when it comes to women, yet somehow still being praised for it. LaRocca makes very few smart choices in this novella, but sure does cram a lot of bad decisions into 112 pages.
But there is quite literally nothing good between the pages of this piece. Animals in distress, described violence against children, and another unfortunate case of a man writing an absolute train wreck when it comes to women, yet somehow still being praised for it. LaRocca makes very few smart choices in this novella, but sure does cram a lot of bad decisions into 112 pages.