Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

112 reviews

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

sinaprst's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

this story made me almost throw up several times

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Vomit, and Medical content

Minor: Suicide and Lesbophobia

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

exhumedprince's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia

readwithsophsx's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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, Death, Gore, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

pendularium's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

2.0

I believe I bought this book because it was recommended time and time again by various people promising a 'disturbing' and 'thought provoking' read on booktok. This was not that book. The gore often felt unnecessary, and the writing only really shone in the titular Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke - I found Agnes' emails in particularly genuinely captivating. The through line of the human desire for connection was...fine? It was best done in Things Have Gotten Worse, but even there it felt like some more time between emails - or more content of Agnes and Zoe talking would have significantly helped it out. I have nothing much to say about the other two short stories, other than that the last one (You'll Find It's Like That All Over) genuinely baffled me in why exactly it was there at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy

calhudak's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Self harm, Religious bigotry, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Body horror, Infertility, and Racism

avajlw's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

i really wanted to like it, read it in two short sittings. unfortunately we didnt really get to see any character depth. it felt rushed and that it relied more heavily on shock value and visceral descriptions of gore than complex horror 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Medical content, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

marcostorin's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content and Kidnapping

brynniek's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicide, and Excrement