Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

694 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

hanrutmoe's review against another edition

I'm no stranger to some of the most disturbing books out there,  but this book pulled needless animal cruelty out the blue. It felt very unnecessary to the plot, I didn't want to read further. I guess I've found where I draw the line. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

skullotonin's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

challenging but hard to follow and not super engaging

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual content and Vomit

Minor: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Medical content, and Cannibalism

not for the faint of heart

scr1bblecat's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

holy shit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia

ariajb'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

well that was disgusting but still not as bad as I anticipated 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, and Sexual content

folkmare's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

2.0

when the author says in the end note that they wrote it in 5 days... yeah.

Also I generally find leaning on animal abuse as a shock factor lazy and off-putting. Especially when the animal abuse doesn't really serve a purpose besides "hey look how fucked up the world is"

*OH my god. if I realized this was the same author that wrote We Can Never Leave This Place, I probably wouldn't have picked it up. I fucking hated that book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

holbeancoffeeld's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

emily_tench's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, and Pregnancy

alex_conners's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.75

I wasn't a huge fan of the first story. But the second two I actually really liked.

I think the first story would be better served as a longer story. There's just not enough development between the characters for me to suspend disbelief.

The second story, I thought, was fine. I had forgotten about the gas by the time it came back into play, and I think it was well served by its length. It posed a couple of interesting questions, and the idea of a husband and wife forced together by their dead son is a good concept.

The third story was short and sweet and sets up a lot that I liked. I do enjoy the idea of a little old man going around terrorizing people with bets that they accept out of politeness. It's a terrifying concept, while also incredibly interesting.

Despite my enjoyment of the last story and being lukewarm on the second. I can't rate this higher because the majority of the books length was taken by a story I wasn't a huge fan of.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Suicide, and Blood

Moderate: Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, and Vomit