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A review by agustdefault
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca
challenging
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.0
collection as a whole - 4 stars
i surprisingly loved the second story the most. we love religious trauma!
for the titular story, i have some mixed feelings. its extremely disturbing and i absolutely love stories about obsession. it was watching a descent into madness and it made my stomach curl. however, the pacing in this story is super weirdly done and the ‘descent’ into madness is less gradual and more like stepping off of a cliff. it needed 50 more pages of relationship development and then it might have been 5 stars.
i surprisingly loved the second story the most. we love religious trauma!
for the titular story, i have some mixed feelings. its extremely disturbing and i absolutely love stories about obsession. it was watching a descent into madness and it made my stomach curl. however, the pacing in this story is super weirdly done and the ‘descent’ into madness is less gradual and more like stepping off of a cliff. it needed 50 more pages of relationship development and then it might have been 5 stars.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Vomit