Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

65 reviews

therealmsroth's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Quick, highly intriguing read. Took a partial point off because of all the unanswered questions. I wanted more... In a good way? Very interesting characters. I wish I could get more of their stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Toxic relationship, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Blood, Self harm, Suicide, Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Infertility, Sexual content, Body horror, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

sarah_belum's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Miscarriage

slytherinlyss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I appreciated the anecdotal format, I feel it pushed the narrative forward and fast tracked the character development. Eric LaRoca is great at keeping you guessing, whilst simultaneously telling you exactly what’s occurred. This was a dark but fun, queer novella that I would recommend to only a select few; only the worthy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Toxic relationship

tibcanread's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? Yes

1.25

I hate giving 1 star reviews, but I couldn't stand this book even more. I read this for a horror book club pick and I'm going to be honest, I just skimmed the last story. I couldn't anymore. It was gross. Not even in a fun way, just gross. I actually felt sick to my stomach reading some of these nasty descriptions. And what was the obsession with pregnancy in the first two stories? Like, why? Really.  

I found no real redeeming quality in this collection. The writing was not great (if I hear someone spooned something ever again it will be too soon, and how do ears furrow exactly??) It's only January 9th and I'm pretty sure this is going to the top of the worst books I read list for 2024 already. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Animal death, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Gore, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, Body horror, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Abandonment, Pregnancy, and Child death

erinmichele_reads's review against another edition

dark

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Animal death, and Suicide

2busyreading's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Homophobia

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.

agustdefault's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

collection as a whole - 4 stars

i surprisingly loved the second story the most. we love religious trauma! 

for the titular story, i have some mixed feelings. its extremely disturbing and i absolutely love stories about obsession. it was watching a descent into madness  and it made my stomach curl. however, the pacing in this story is super weirdly done and the ‘descent’ into madness is less gradual and more like stepping off of a cliff. it needed 50 more pages of relationship development and then it might have been 5 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Body horror, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Vomit, and Suicide

emilythestrange's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I found myself off and saying what the fuck we reading this book, but it was a good book. I won’t lie. The stories were really fun and so weird.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Minor: Racism

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