Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

710 reviews

morbidmyrna'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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Body horror

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Lesbophobia

bee_03's review against another edition

dark 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

2.75

everything after the conversation on 07/31/2000 was not what i was expecting. the whole fifth act left me deeply disturbed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

serenedancer's review against another edition

dark slow-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

2.0

I don't get it. Everyone's out here acting like it's the worse thing they've ever read.  But I just found it meh.

It might be that I don't usually vibe with horror, and that I can't visualize stuff like this.  Also I did have to spoil myself, because someone's review made me think they were gonna peel skin with apple peeler (they don't). If they were i knew i wasn't going to be able to read it. But if all the book relied on was shock value, then it's not good either. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

bea2001's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

theoriebubble's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

2.5

idk man merkt irgendwie dass das ein mann geschrieben hat lmao

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

fionamatilda's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

3.0

why did i read this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Child abuse, Self harm, and Toxic relationship

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

bowlingforboots's review against another edition

3.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal cruelty

chaya_v's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

this is the kind of book where you desperately want to look away but you just can’t. 
the writing is out of this world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Vomit