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This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances by Eric LaRocca

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reading_ryn's review

dark emotional tense

4.5

"It was as if someone had crept into her coils of memory and dragged the thoughts of him screaming by the roots from the bed of her mind."

No cara mia, you are reading it wrong. This is LaRocca. You gotta sit back, clear your mind and grant it immunity. Let the story seduce you, as I was seduced. Allow it to whisk you away and see where it takes you. When you get there, keep going. Poetically dark and flush with emotion. It was a web of creative grotesque, one I didn't want to disentangle from.

This was my very FIRST Splatterpunk book being a virgin to the genre. Wow. I have been awakened. I just wanna setup an Airbnb inside LaRocca's mind and live in it. Splatterpunk, you are my therapeutic sanctum. An outlet I never even knew I needed until now.

deadflytrachea's review

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dark mysterious reflective 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

4.0

I've heard that these stories are the weakest/least intense stories Eric LaRocca has to offer and if that's the case then maybe their other work isn't for me.
I think about the last story quite often.