Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

You've Lost a Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca

18 reviews

creatureof_nature's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

1.0

Boring, messy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Body horror, Car accident, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, and Child abuse

poeple's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Abandonment, Car accident, and Death of parent

octobermontoya's review

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.0

I, probably like many, came to You've Lost Alot of Blood after reading LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. It's really hard for another book to live up to THGWSWLS's reputation and just the experience of reading it for the first time - so it seems unfair to measure this one against that one. You've Lost Alot of Blood is doing a lot - it's almost like 3 books in one; poetry, a novella, and a screen play type thing (script?). Not as grotesque, shocking, and cinematic as THGWSWLS but still experimental, surprising, and unsettling. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Pedophilia, Cancer, Grief, Violence, Child death, Torture, Body horror, and Abandonment

biobeetle's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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? It's complicated

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Violence, Alcoholism, Abandonment, and Alcohol

likeagilmoregirl's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Car accident, Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Body horror, and Suicide

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Drug use, and Animal death

r_o_s_e's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Abandonment, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, Alcohol, Vomit, Pedophilia, and Death of parent

readingwithbritney's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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? N/A

4.0

I went into this book completely blind, and I'm glad I did! I was so entertained by this. There's 2 stories within the novella, and some poetry as well. I didn't know what to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised. It's not super violent or gory, but it does have a ton of suspense, and a few moments that sent chills down my spine. I would highly recommend this book to people that like psychological horror. I don't want to give much away, because I truly feel like everyone should go in blind on this one!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Murder, Vomit, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Gore, Alcohol, Body horror, and Violence

nithya_natalya's review

dark fast-paced

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

4.25

I have no idea what I just read, and I loved it! I read this so fast, and was just  utterly mesmerized by it. The prose was really beautiful without holding on to any lit fic pretensions. It still felt solidly rooted in genre fic. I really wasn't sure where this was going. I love horror that feel cyclical. It's so creepy and haunting, and this book pulled that off well. The structure of the book was an interesting approach, and a great way to break up the novella within the novel, and leave you with cliffhangers. The only thing I didn't like were the the transcripts of phone recordings. It felt like kind of a wacky, unrealistic way to get the killers' actual voices into the text, and didn't quite make sense to me. Who records themselves having convos, and then records their inner thoughts during the conversation over the original audio after the fact? Can you even do that on a phone? Was he using audio editing software on his laptop??! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Vomit, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Murder, and Body horror

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcohol, Car accident, and Blood

mirnda's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

A book that demands to be reread as soon as you've finished it. The plot slithers in a delightfully disturbing circle, and the series of reveals near the end are perfectly foreshadowed in a way that hit my brain's dopamine button over and over. I've been devouring LaRocca's work over the past couple weeks, and this is my favorite so far.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Murder, and Body horror

Moderate: Vomit, Abandonment, Cancer, and Torture

Minor: Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Confinement, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident

lydj's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

no plot just vibes 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Abandonment, and Death

Minor: Death of parent and Car accident