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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
Love everything I've read by LaRocca. Lost a star for using the word "mounted" far too many times.
as with all of his work - I’m not entirely sure if I understand what I just read and I’m not entirely sure if I enjoyed it? But I’ll keep reading his novellas because they really make me question so many things.
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as with all of his work - I’m not entirely sure if I understand what I just read and I’m not entirely sure if I enjoyed it? But I’ll keep reading his novellas because they really make me question so many things.
Merged review:
as with all of his work - I’m not entirely sure if I understand what I just read and I’m not entirely sure if I enjoyed it? But I’ll keep reading his novellas because they really make me question so many things.
Eric LaRocca has done it again with this surreal horror novella.
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Eric LaRocca has done it again with this surreal horror novella.
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Eric LaRocca has done it again with this surreal horror novella.
A brutal fairy tale. A literal nightmare. But like one I would have as a child. Immersive. Brief. Memorable. A little disgusting. A little whimsical. I think it made me feel exactly what it intended to. And I'm not sure if i liked it, but I will definitely read it again.
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Maybe 2.5 for this one? Disappointed because this has so many 5 star ratings. I think maybe this author just isn't for me. I feel like maybe it's just that these books aren't scary, they're just gross. I much prefer horror that makes me feel disturbed in like a "wow that was spooky!!" way and not a "now I am thinking of the way my tendons are in my body!!!" way. I preferred this to the other book I read of his but I didn't like it enough to read anything else.
This book will haunt me. Only down side was it was short, it was amazing otherwise. Absolutely grotesque and borderline traumatizing. 10/10 reccomend.
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
August 2022.
“When you're given a gift, something else gets taken away."
A teen girl trapped in a home falling apart with her mother, both grieving the recent death of the father. The backdrop setting is their being Jewish during a nazi invasion of wherever they are during WWII, though the isolation and lack of safety in general plays a bigger role while the specific war torn setting is merely alluded to. Shortly after his death, an unexpected visitor comes to the home in the midst of their grief, serving as the catalyst for the rest of the story.
Familial trauma, visceral destructive grief, dysfunctional relationships. A laundry list of CW, not for everyone. But this is excellent and does it all well, disturbingly, creatively, and in a way that feels heart-wrenchingly true.
“There are some recollections of mine with sprawling roots so strong I can’t help but wonder if they’re made from piano wire. Even if they were memories I might not care to attend to, like perennials they bloom every year around the same time, as if to remind me of the young woman I once was and how everything was almost taken from me”
Got from sac library. My first of Eric LaRocca, looking forward to more after a bit of a breather. Definitely so dark I’d only read on a weekend with a something lighter as a palette cleanser to read or watch after.
“We Can Never Leave This Place” by Eric LaRocca.
“When you're given a gift, something else gets taken away."
A teen girl trapped in a home falling apart with her mother, both grieving the recent death of the father. The backdrop setting is their being Jewish during a nazi invasion of wherever they are during WWII, though the isolation and lack of safety in general plays a bigger role while the specific war torn setting is merely alluded to. Shortly after his death, an unexpected visitor comes to the home in the midst of their grief, serving as the catalyst for the rest of the story.
Familial trauma, visceral destructive grief, dysfunctional relationships. A laundry list of CW, not for everyone. But this is excellent and does it all well, disturbingly, creatively, and in a way that feels heart-wrenchingly true.
“There are some recollections of mine with sprawling roots so strong I can’t help but wonder if they’re made from piano wire. Even if they were memories I might not care to attend to, like perennials they bloom every year around the same time, as if to remind me of the young woman I once was and how everything was almost taken from me”
Got from sac library. My first of Eric LaRocca, looking forward to more after a bit of a breather. Definitely so dark I’d only read on a weekend with a something lighter as a palette cleanser to read or watch after.
“We Can Never Leave This Place” by Eric LaRocca.