Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

103 reviews

arys_library's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

3.75

Uh wow. Why did I love this book. It was so entertaining I read it in one sitting. Of course the fact it’s only 100 pages helped. But still what? It wasn’t what I fully thought, it was gross and gory but not nearly as dark and emotionally grueling as I expected. Instead it shows just how far someone will go, how evil and crazy someone can become with a small push from someone else. There are only two things I didn’t like about the book. First, the main characters talked to eachother so weirdly in the beginning. (No spoilers don’t worry) in the beginning I get that they were more professional but still in every email they sent it felt like they worked together or something. But when they chatted on messenger it was completely different. I don’t know if I just wasn’t getting the point of that or if it was just weird. And the second is kind of hard to explain without spoilers. But it was so strange how Agnes so quickly agreed to everything Zoe asked her to do. These things she did with ty out question or deeper thought, or even proof that Zoe would follow through. Unrealistic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Sexual content, Cursing, and Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Vomit

katbamkapow's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• 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

3.0

It was fun! I mean, if you know what you're in for. A quick, horrifying read on the sofa in one sitting. At times  it felt like the prose was working a little harder than it needed to, simply for the sake of itself, but for something so short it didn't really bother me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Torture, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Grief, Self harm, Animal cruelty, and Cursing

Moderate: Sexual content

roraisabella's review against another edition

challenging 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? Yes

3.0

a book that makes you go “what the hell was that”, very icky and disturbing but i love a short horror story, and this one was shocking enough to keep you turning the page. gripping writing style and easy to read. that being said, this book isn’t meaningful at all, and works mainly off shock value and gore. i also didn’t like the detailed scenes of animal cruelty, i found it unnecessary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Excrement, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit

nabilzo's review against another edition

dark 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

3.0

It's odd how it's so unsettling yet leaves you wanting more, I guess what I was looking for was a justification on the actions the characters did here; their reasonale. It's just a trip straight down to the black hole, but was written in a very interesting way. The cover really scares me and I avoid looking at it, but it exactly represents the content of the book and I must say, it really is something.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, and Vomit

Moderate: Vomit and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

shushkeepitdown's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

• 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? It's complicated

2.0

Made me feel sick and it gives me an ick knowing this might be based on a real case. There was descriptions about certain things that made me feel uncomfortable but I didn't enjoy it much. It was fast paced and not very enjoyable to read. Both characters feel very unlikable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Lesbophobia

boringandgay's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

loremei's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.5

The email/chat room format takes a lot away from the book because all of it is written in a way no human actually speaks. Feels a lot like this book was originally written as a het relationship and the dom of the relationship was a man later changed into another woman to make the dom *less* everything (manipulative, predatory) than the character would’ve been interpreted as a man. Like it’s fucked up regardless, but clearly a book written by a man.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Slavery

lola_lab's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.25

So many trigger warnings. So many

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Abandonment, Body horror, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

basurosehan's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

 i like it, SHOCKING—

its shocking because i dont even like this genre 😭 but it was very intriguing and the way it was executed was good too. 

i cant give this four stars because it creeped me out so much and its my review so LOL!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Excrement, Gaslighting, Torture, Gore, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Self harm

jextown's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

I like the idea of this book. The pitch was great, the way people talked about it so much more intriguing than what it actually was. I only finished it cause it was so short. But a disappointment feels like an understatement. There were several things inserted that felt just placed there for the sake of being disgusting or disturbing  or whatever, but  it didn’t work for me. Honestly the way Angnes talked about wanting a baby to begin with was probably on par with the grossness of everything else for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Child death, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, and Mental illness

Minor: Homophobia