Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

103 reviews

hannahhicken's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Torture, Medical content, Violence, Vomit, Murder, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Gore, Sexual content, Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, and Self harm

tessaofthedawn's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.5

I get what the book was going for in terms exploring toxic relationships, extreme dependency and depravity but it was just not for me, maybe a bit too fast paced i’m not sure

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Toxic relationship

lizardgod's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

1.0

• It's fine I guess? Not worth the hype I saw for it. Read it if you're interested in it but prepare to be disappointed and uncomfortable seeing the characters fit the 'women are seen as violent and sexual playthings' quota.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Violence, and Torture

dustghosts's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, Torture, Suicide, and Sexual content

booksofautumn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child death, Self harm, Sexual content, Animal death, Blood, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Toxic relationship, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Suicide

alilovesbooks4170's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Violence, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

cady_sass's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I am deeply disturbed but also I can’t stop thinking about it??? None of this makes any sense, I hate it so much. But also, I don’t. None of that is a useful review. What a completely unhinged piece of writing. Couldn’t put it down. Pissed at the ending but, upon reflection, how do you end it any other way? I wish it was a full novel and not so short but perhaps it would lose some of the luster. This will live in my head rent-free forever and I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing.

Cover art 50/10 though. Literally the most stunning novel on my shelf and it stays just for that reason alone

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Vomit, Child death, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Blood, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

angeldaft's review against another edition

dark 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? No

5.0

No rating. I don't know what I think about this one. I don't really have any strong feelings. I would recommend you check all the content warnings before you read, I just read the resumed ones and was not prepared for some... Disgusting descriptions. 
Listened to it while cooking meat, didn't eat it after I was done.

Edit: this story has grown on me. I've been reading more of LaRocca's work and I'm really liking this kind of horror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

salvatorer2's review against another edition

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

The book was really distressing to read.

The detailed accounts of maiming, animal death, and recounted gruesome events from the news will probably stay with you long after. However, there was some missed oppotunities. I feel that the rabbit eating their babies was unneeded, as well as the priest running over the cat, because neither of them add anything to the themes of the story.

They were unnecessary. Just for shock value. Other than that, it was okay. Idk if im gonna read it again, but we’ll see

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Gore, Homophobia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Child death, Death, Pregnancy, Violence, Animal cruelty, Grief, Hate crime, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Animal death, and Body horror

morgansb's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

1.75

This was unpleasant. I don't disagree with the premise of a bizarre D/S relationship, but the pace at which the relationship progressed was confusing. I also didn't think that it ended well, or resolved itself. This book was quite short, and for that it suffers from being annoyingly incomplete. I'm confused as to why the correspondence is part of a police report, because this also does not get touched upon. Overall, the big shocker was more gross than anything, but weirdly enough there was an online gross out blog called "blowfly"(huge trigger warnings for body horror, trauma,sex, blood , etc) which honestly reminded me a lot of this, so I wasn't the most original idea. I would be surprised if the author didn't gather inspiration from that to be honest. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Gore, Body horror, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Murder and Mental illness

Minor: Blood, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Grief, Excrement, and Death