Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca

610 reviews

shaouais's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Vomit, and Self harm

kirakomrade's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Slavery, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, and Animal death

fynn_jls's review against another edition

2.0

What the actual fuck did I just read 

(Literally. Wtf. In the beginning the book just felt like some kind of medoicre Wattpad story but then it escalated completely

Spoiler

if you dont feel like reading about someones emotional connection to their tapeworm, just don't read this. You don't miss out on anything

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Content Warnings

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

msbedelia's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.75

The only book that's ever given me a stomache. Extremely well-written with so many layers between the lines... But at what cost?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Body horror, Self harm, Sexual content, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

courtneypaigea's review

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Grief, Animal death, Death, and Miscarriage

creep_reads's review against another edition

dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body horror and Gore

Minor: Vomit, Sexual content, Child abuse, Child death, and Suicide

kupids's review against another edition

dark sad tense

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Body horror, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death

sidhewitch's review against another edition

3.0

There's a pretty slow start before things ramp up, and then things take a very sharp left turn with one character in particular and from then on it was hard to feel horrified over the sheer stupidity. 

A quick read tho, and with interesting (if extremely literary and not at all realistic) prose. Not a strong recommend but I wouldn't chase anyone off it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Violence, Animal death, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Self harm, and Injury/Injury detail

The content warning list is, shockingly, probably not exhaustive. But this isn't a splatter-punk book so take it with a grain of salt if you're used to extreme horror. This is not it, in my opinion.

persephonesblade's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.25

I get why there is such a "Love it or hate it" vibe about this book. People who read it seem to think it is either the most intense, messed up thing they've ever read or boring drivel and a poor attempt at a shock factor. Personally I do not think either of these lines of thought fit this book. It's a quick paced read and its by no means revolutionary writing but it is fun. Not quite as intense as I'd been led to believe, but still a good quick horror. The relationship itself and the escalation was fascinating and horrible to watch. The writing style is simple but it serves the format well. This book definitely isn't good enough to cause the stir it has. But I enjoyed it nonetheless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Toxic relationship

theebookling's review against another edition

Overall this book was well written, I just think it had a lot of wasted potential. The cover, title and synopsis is the perfect trio to intrigue readers but once you dive in, it starts to feel a bit lackluster.

First story was unrealistic with character development and pacing, most notably with how the characters communicated. It had a good start but you get whiplash with how sudden the momentum changes. I think this story definitely had potential and would have made a great standalone novel, allowing the opportunity to expand on the characters and their motivations. The ending left me very confused and I think it was more about shock value here.

Second story was very predictable. There is subtle commentary on religion and the devout here, and I must say I was very curious about the world/current news setup in the first chapter but it unfortunately takes a backseat as we follow a married couple and their trauma. The wife is religious while the husband is what we would say agnostic given the context lol but the story doesn't really do anything different here. Her character development and even the plot was very predictable

Spoiler

(was she being punished for being too devout or wanting to be a mother)

but I was expecting it, begging even, to go somewhere else.  Somewhere more spooky. I also can't shake the feeling that I've read something very similar already? 

Unfortunately, while I hoped for better this was a DNF for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Animal death