Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

726 reviews

msbedelia's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

The only book that's ever given me a stomache. Extremely well-written with so many layers between the lines... But at what cost?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

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, Animal death, Body horror, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship, 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.

corebooks's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

a tapeworm named finneas

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, and Sexual harassment

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

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

elisatifi's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

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

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