Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

409 reviews

sben13's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, Death, Self harm, Blood, Toxic relationship, Gore, Body horror, Murder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

Minor: Vomit

halaagmod'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

2.0

Ending was very abrupt, little character development, and the "disturbing" things felt they were more there for shock value than to serve any narrative purpose. Still a decent read, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death, Gore, Animal death, and Body horror

Moderate: Gaslighting, Cursing, and Excrement

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

I counted it as "body horror" since I don't know how else to describe it, but there's a scene in which the protagonist

eats a maggot-infested piece of steak, gets violently ill, and gets a tapeworm from it. She thinks that the tapeworm is a "child,"

which explains the "pregnancy" and "miscarriage" tags.

mr_cain's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

underwhelmingly mediocre. each story had a strong premise and each failed to deliver any kind of interesting, tense, or emotional conclusion. The first two were quite gross--i guess for the shock value?--but weren't scary. Just yucky.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Violence, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Murder, Child death, Stalking, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Miscarriage, and Vomit

numenorbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, and Gore

autumnwhite's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Vomit, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Gore, Body horror, Animal death, Suicide, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Lesbophobia

nahochacon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Estoy impactada en el mejor de los sentidos. Normalmente no soy fan de los thrillers, pero algo me atrajo de esta lectura. Es ligera y rápida la forma de leerla, pero a ratos es tan pesada que si me tomé unos minutos.

Recomendada pero con la reserva que no es para los altamente sensibles.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Gore, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Child death, and Vomit

saint_eleanor's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This was mind boggling y’all. I don’t think i could say enough good things abt this book so I’m just gonna compare reading each story to watching specific movies. ¯\_(•3•)_/¯ 

1. the first story was like watching Helter Skelter (2012), Love Exposure, Bones and All, Anti-Christ, Raw, and Titane.
2. The second one is like watching Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Lodge, Enys Men, & Saint Maud.
3. The third is JUST like Speak No Evil, The Invitation (2015) and Creep.

read it!
Discord: @pickledfishxoxo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Violence, Self harm, Suicide, and Infertility

Minor: Sexual content

Eating bugs, crucifixion, psychological abuse.

alreads420's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

arloisgross'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? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

raccoon_reads's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Body horror