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A review by sarah984
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
dark
medium-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
1.0
This read like something you'd find on r/nosleep, and I mean that in the least flattering way possible.
It's a novel set up as transcripts of emails and AIM conversations between two young women in the year 2000. They meet via an LGBT web forum over the sale of an apple peeler and things quickly escalate to a point of no return which leads to one woman’s death. This summary, the catchphrase "what have you done today to deserve your eyes?" and the marketing as horror had me expecting something wild.
It really isn't. There's not even a horror element.The two women exchange a few tedious, pretentiously worded emails, almost immediately fall in love and enter a weird BDSM master/slave relationship, and then it turns out that one of the women is ~crazy~ and obsessed with having a child and does a (gross but mundane) thing that leads to her death. A few gory descriptions isn't enough to make something horror to me.
It's a novel set up as transcripts of emails and AIM conversations between two young women in the year 2000. They meet via an LGBT web forum over the sale of an apple peeler and things quickly escalate to a point of no return which leads to one woman’s death. This summary, the catchphrase "what have you done today to deserve your eyes?" and the marketing as horror had me expecting something wild.
It really isn't. There's not even a horror element.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Death and Homophobia
Minor: Vomit and Cannibalism
Very bad portrayal of a BDSM relationship (the dom forcing the sub to hurt herself and others)
A character eats spoiled food
Description of parasites