Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

145 reviews

bgmylc's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

nalakoala'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I have the edition with the two other stories but I'll read those at a later date, which is why I'm commenting on this one.

THGWSWLS has a lot of hype... but it didn't hit. I wanted it to get progressively worse but instead there was like 1 gross scene and then it ended. The end was weird and while I did like it, it came too fast and just fell flat. We also didn't get to explore Zoe as a character as much as I would've liked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Minor: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, and Medical content

maggie_49's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child death, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

rosaelia's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Vomit, and Murder

clovetra's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

i’m sitting here cackling because what in the actual fuck did i just read. i’m crying from laughter right here. does that say something deeper about my psyche at the moment? probably. was this incredibly silly goofy? yes!!!!!

my only real gripe is this is solely related to one of my triggers. now i’m fine with gore in my horror. hell i’ll watch horror movies with gore. but you bring bugs into My Horror??????? ohh i lose my mind. bugs have always been an insane trigger for me. i am always afraid bugs are in my ears. i was told once that biting your nails gives you pinworms and as a girlie with dermatillomania i had a panic attack over that thought. once i woke up in my bed to an earwig next to me and now i am always paranoid ill wake up and an earwig is in my bed. needless to say, a bitch doesn’t like bugs!!!!! so i’ll say this book really did have me!!!!! 

i don’t know what you’d call this book but it wasn’t really… horror? idk i’d say it’s more like psychological thriller. but also i realise im incredibly desensitised to weird shit so. 

i wish there was more time to expand on the fucked up relationship between these two but also this is a novella so. i’m not mad.

the ending is lowkey kinda funny? not funny haha funny goofy. i liked the way the ending brought us all the way to the beginning as well. nice little tie in.

i feel like im going to be severely judged for actually saying i had a good time. i cant say i enjoyed myself but lowkey i don’t think that’s the point. i had a good time. i felt like agnes reading this — enjoying it but not really but kind of but hating it but loving it. yeah. this isn’t a book ur meant to love. it’s so fuckjng insane. but i liked it! i’m not mad at it! i can also understand why everyone i know of either thinks this is mediocre or horrible! i am in the minority! long live the apple peeler and finneas! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Self harm, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Medical content

Minor: Homophobia

lordofdisorder's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment

kharv294's review against another edition

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

kastygian's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

The beginning of the book was very intriguing, and I was excited to see where it went. However, it kind of fell short of my expectations. 

Short stories are great, but only when they can effectively fit a fully fledged story in a small amount of pages. This book could have been, and should have been longer. I wish the relationship between Zoe and Agnes was more developed. 

Plot spoilers:

There could have been a great opportunity to really revel in the depraved, codependent nature of their relationship and build up to the more shocking moments with more instances of weird and horrific acts to prove Agnes’ commitment to Zoe and Zoe’s deranged and manipulative motives. It would have made it a little more believable and shocking that Agnes would eventually go to the lengths she did, and would’ve made Zoe’s revelation more devastating. 

Also, Agnes’ overwhelming need to have a baby and making that such an important part of her relationship with Zoe almost immediately kind felt like it came out of nowhere. 

 

I just feel like developing the relationship between the two characters would’ve reinforced the categorization of a “queer horror story” rather than a horror story where the characters happen to be queer. 

All that said, I enjoyed the writing style, the premise, and I think the ending would’ve been perfect if the rest of the book was more fleshed out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Gore, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

shebbyreads's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

viciousfrockery's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.0

this collection unsettled me in a way that's stuck with me as i eat apples, as i pick the florets of vegetables from my teeth, and as i slip into the bath. queer not as in romantic, but queer as in obsessed with the self and devoted to the other, queer from the inside out. truly excellent dip into what LaRocca can accomplish in short order. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Gaslighting, and Abandonment