Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

337 reviews

kaylasbewks's review against another edition

dark sad tense

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Body horror, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death

sidhewitch's review against another edition

3.0

There's a pretty slow start before things ramp up, and then things take a very sharp left turn with one character in particular and from then on it was hard to feel horrified over the sheer stupidity. 

A quick read tho, and with interesting (if extremely literary and not at all realistic) prose. Not a strong recommend but I wouldn't chase anyone off it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Violence, Animal death, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Self harm, and Injury/Injury detail

The content warning list is, shockingly, probably not exhaustive. But this isn't a splatter-punk book so take it with a grain of salt if you're used to extreme horror. This is not it, in my opinion.

tobibi's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Grief, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Pregnancy, Excrement, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

ribbenkast's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

4.25

At one point I literally wanted to vomit. What a great horror book!

It's a gripping tale of a toxic relationship gone even more wrong. It could've benefited from being a bit more of a slow burn but it works great as this short novella.

Please check the trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Infertility, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Lesbophobia, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Animal cruelty

ellislilylovestoread's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Self harm, Mental illness, Death, Suicide, Animal cruelty, and Violence

Moderate: Pregnancy and Racism

jpn99's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Excrement, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Child abuse, Lesbophobia, Blood, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

moonamidheaven's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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

2.0

...interesting...

it's a bit too graphic for my personal taste and very obviously written by a man

don't really remember why this was on my tbr

atleast it was a quick read & i got it over in a day 😧

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

nuclear_droid's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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

3.5

That… sure was a book. 
It was attention grabbing and it kept me wanting to know what will happen. Some of the descriptive language was really quite incredible (in the less icky bits). But it was also just so profoundly weird and off putting. I feel like I would’ve enjoyed it more if it was longer and the absurdity developed over time, very 0 to 100 real quick. An uncomfortable read but a read I still think was worth reading?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

bowlingforboots's review against another edition

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Gore, Abandonment, and Infertility

Moderate: Animal cruelty

akane_readsyt's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Murder, Pregnancy, Violence, Torture, Abandonment, and Mental illness

Moderate: Medical content, Religious bigotry, Grief, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Vomit