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Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

40 reviews

nightwideopen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Excrement, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism

roya'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

audlydarling's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Hate crime, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

jadepfaefflin's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

finnthehuman217's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I don’t like the way queer trauma is treated as the horror story here. It’s not like we actually have lives besides being the victims of hate crimes. I found that the characters were lovable but the gratuitous violence was too much for me. Just as an aside? I love André Santana’s voice! He narrated the Bury your gays book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

emlen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

sjbryson's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

schuster_s's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

 "Just because you create something doesn't mean you have to take care of it."

This book has been clawing at me for a while now. I have read a few of Eric LaRocca's works and have been impressed by what he can do with ghastly body horror in a way that is still enticing but not weak. Although this book still made me uncomfortable, it wasn't pointless. The dread I felt every time the perspective shifted to Heart Crowley made my stomach churn. The heartbreak for Malik and Brett.

This book takes place in New England, in a quiet town when lonely people have started to go missing. A widower named Ghost mourns the recent death of his wife and is fighting back debt collectors. A gay couple move into a house, only to be met with hostility by the neighborhood. This horrific novel brings to light the nastiness of the world and the desires of the heart.

I burned through this book partially because of its length, partially because I bought it on vacation and have other books to get through. But also, I really wanted to get to the end. In a way, the ending felt weird, like LaRocca did a quick wrap up after a messy third quarter. Overall, I think there were a lot of literary devices used, and the metaphors and similes were /almost/ a bit too much. I liked the disturbing tale and am always happy to find someone who can make me feel the dread and horror without being too disgusting.

I will be reading more LaRocca in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Torture, Excrement, and Islamophobia

Malik and his husband survive and leave town. Malik has no memories of the abuse he receives while kidnapped. This book is written by a queer person and describes horrible hate crime and torture of a gay man, who in the end survives and is okay, but it is still jarring.

aftersuns_'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

I had a lot of hope for this book but it was incredibly disappointing, not to mention overly graphic.

His writing style is incredibly disjointed and there are plot holes everywhere. I had to go back and read certain parts because one scene would be completely different than how it was supposedly set up with no explanation of how things moved along.

Mostly, I truly hated how unnecessarily graphic it was with specific scenes. ***Trigger Warning*** but there was absolutely no need for a rape scene to be thrown in and then completely disregarded by basically retconning it in the last 10 pages.

The MC's are just... pathetic and make the most ridiculous, poorly thought out choices. There is no good plot development whatsoever. It's two storylines running parallel that seem to crash into one another with no rhyme or reason.

Overall, it feels cheap, poorly thoughtout, poorly executed, rushed, and an excuse to live out the experience of being hate crimed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Drug use, and Excrement

whatwasmissing's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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? No

was not expecting this to run the full gamut of content warnings but there you go.

i quite liked the slow build of the mystery in the first half, particularly the missing townsfolk and the charming devil.
the last 30% or so was so incredibly graphic that it was hard to get through. the resolution after that did feel  pretty rushed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Islamophobia, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Minor: Excrement

There is an extended and extremely graphic homophobia-motivated gang rape scene that lasts through multiple chapters. This is revealed to be partly motivated by

one of the perpetrators' childhood trauma from child sexual abuse by an unknown man