611 reviews for:

We Can Never Leave This Place

Eric LaRocca

3.46 AVERAGE

findingbetterdays's review

3.5

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

isabeldelaney's review

3.5

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

apersonfromflorida's review

5.0

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Excrement

Minor: Child death, Incest, War

wadoo's review

3.75

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bukushelves's review

4.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

batcaves's review

2.5

dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I read this in a single sitting and it was crazy, disturbing, thought provoking, downright upsetting, and confusing. I loved it. I think a lot of it went over my head and normally I'd say that's not the book's fault but in this case I think maybe it is, hence the docking of a star. As a whole though, I feel like I'm gonna be thinking about this one for awhile and feeling really messed up over it. PLEASE check triggers before picking this up if you have any concerns going in because if there's a trigger you have, I promise it is in here lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Rape, Sexual content

nicolehm_'s review

4.0

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This was very different to both of Erica LaRocca’s over novellas in the sense that it was one flowing story, rather than a mixture of emails/transcripts etc.

It was absolutely wild and had such vivid imagery, I could picture the skin crawling movie in my head.

The ending was brilliant.

kon713's review

4.5

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jackalopecore's review

4.5

dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder

Moderate: Vomit, Cannibalism

Minor: Gun violence, War