Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

32 reviews

licipok'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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Animal death, and Self harm

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Body horror, and Excrement

lacee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Animal death, Death, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Lesbophobia, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Medical content

Minor: Cursing, Confinement, Child abuse, Vomit, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

lgw3456's review against another edition

dark 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

1.0

finished in an hour & it still wasn't worth the time it took to read it. good if you're looking for gross-out/shock horror i guess? characters felt underdeveloped & almost indistinguishable which is unfortunate when the format of your story is email conversations. gross and then sad - not worth the hype imo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Excrement and Vomit

cupcait's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Gore, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

unknown_reader's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.0

3.5/5

It’s short story which you can finish in one sitting, and it’s a bit disturbing…not that much though. 

Though, I have to admit I expect WAY worse. Like, especially because of the cover (which is the reason why I wanted read it) and some of the reviews. But it’s not that disturbing, I’ve read worse. It’s more sad than disturbing actually. 

It’s quite easy and thrilling to read though. All of the story is said in email or chat form, and is a critique in human mind and mental health.
I think it does a good enough job but I feel like it could have been more. 
Especially, some parts which I didn’t get.

Overall, it’s a story of two people chatting which spiral into something worse and disturbing…

Be sure to read the content warnings and it’s a good read (I mean not a GOOD read, like an interesting read ?)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Lesbophobia, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Mental illness, Gore, and Excrement

Moderate: Suicide

aniwillow's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Gore, Emotional abuse, and Animal death

Moderate: Child death, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Death

Minor: Abandonment, Cursing, Excrement, and Vomit

typicalsynopsis's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

So this was possibly the most disturbing thing I've ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Mental illness, Gore, and Excrement

cody's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Animal death, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Excrement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual content

jessicahayth's review against another edition

dark sad 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? Yes

3.0

Look up the trigger warnings prior to reading this book. Nothing I could put together would be exhaustive or perfect. 

I walked into this knowing nothing and read this aloud to my wife on a 3.5 hour drive to the beach. I stopped about half way through (salamander) because I got upset. I finished it at the beach but did not read it aloud again. I told my wife the ending because I knew it would upset her more to hear or read it. 

Enjoyed the writing and the stories within the story. I thought the set up was really nice and it made me enjoy the ending more. I really loved the acknowledgments. Good book if you like really fucked up shit. 

I prefer bigger books so it wasn’t substantial enough for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic relationship

cameronrouse's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

3.75

cool:)! WHAT THE FUCK <3 

i have no idea how to rate this book. this explores manipulation, sadomasochism, body horror, deep psychological horror. the love in this book is psychotic🥰

i’ve seen people criticize the author for being a non-afab individual writing a very torturous manipulative story centered around two queer women (i’ve seen it called “lesbian trauma porn”) as a queer afab person i did not find this story exploitative of the fact that the characters were two women.  

it was deeply disturbing and beautifully written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Excrement, Medical trauma, and Self harm

Minor: Vomit