Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

708 reviews

mollyelyn's review against another edition

dark 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

buttercat42'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? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Child death, and Gore

fanglyfish's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

3.5

The titular story is easily the strongest, though the following two are pretty distinct, so you won't feel any redundancy reading them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Self harm and Vomit

rory_john14'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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Child abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Gore

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Vomit, Cursing, Pregnancy, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Toxic friendship, Pedophilia, Classism, Medical content, Abortion, Terminal illness, Slavery, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Dementia, Abandonment, and Death of parent

b_austridge's review against another edition

dark 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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Self harm and Vomit

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

zoeseiler's review against another edition

It made me too uncomfortable. I did not like the descriptions of animal cruelty and violence

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

esterie's review against another edition

dark

2.0

promising concept but middling execution. ive read better no sleep stories.

god where to start.... it wasnt even that disturbing, ive read and seen worse. aside from the animal stuff (already hate it, why is that the be all end all of disturbing horror it's like the one trick yall got) theres honestly not that much. i was expecting more in terms of progression, both the story and things spiraling out of control. this story would have hit better for me if it was long form, as it is it's so short and things progress SO quickly it just feels almost silly at times. like..... theres uhauling and then there's this. the beginning emails are so contrived and awkward i almost DNFd at that point. the character progression of zoe makes no sense. forcing via contract someone to crush a salamander is ok, but getting a lil too attached to the tapeworm growing inside them (that you encouraged) is a bridge too far? ok lmao

overall just not effective from a horror nor a craft perspective for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

itsjustgrumpy's review against another edition

dark sad 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

3.5

You know what? I expected it to be so much more grotesque with the way people were reviewing it. 

It was sad, seeing someone dove wholeheartedly into an unrequited romance with just selfish intent on the other side. And the building dread that forms in the first few pages just continues to compile til the final line.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, and Child death

Minor: Pregnancy, Gore, Vomit, and Sexual content

asmokeybear's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

0.75

This book made me wish I wasn't literate.

The writing between the two characters seemed super unnatural, for the amount of exposition given in this book, I just don't think this was the right format to use for the entire thing. Also, it was icky.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Vomit, Body horror, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

steffivandewouw's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Pregnancy, Slavery, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Animal death, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Outing, Lesbophobia, Death, and Vomit