Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

154 reviews

aetherkids's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Suicide, Pregnancy, Excrement, Toxic relationship, and Gore

teaselkie's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Animal death, and Body horror

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide attempt, Homophobia, Suicide, and Lesbophobia

hannahdaisy4's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

2.0

I had high expectations for this book, and I think that’s why I feel so disappointed. If I had no expectations, I’d probably be quite pleased with this book. But realistically, it just isn’t that good. I was expecting far worse gore, and although there were some “icky” parts, it was only borderline gross, in my opinion. Interesting characters though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Mental illness

Minor: Pregnancy and Excrement

hannahhicken's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Torture, Medical content, Violence, Vomit, Murder, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Gore, Sexual content, Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, and Self harm

beatreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

3.0

Well… it has a nice cover

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Torture, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abandonment, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

august_18'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Animal death

Moderate: Torture, Toxic relationship, Child death, and Gore

Minor: Pregnancy, Vomit, Homophobia, and Self harm

aalfie's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Eating disorder, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Blood, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, and Self harm

lotharith's review against another edition

dark tense

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Gaslighting, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Gore, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Pregnancy

avclrey's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.0

Weird, shocking, gross. At no point did I know where it was going to know and my jaw literally dropped in disgust multiple times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Suicide, and Animal death

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

satanita's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No

2.25

Would you still love me if there was a worm inside of me? 
I went in completely blind, and it felt like the most bizarre and deprived thing I ever read. For some strange reason, I made it through to the end. It felt like those cases when there is a car crash or somebody breaks their arm and a crowd just watches as somebody is screaming bloody murder, I couldn't look away for my morbid curiosity made me find the source of such terrible suffering. Like what do an apple peeler, a salamander and a piece of rotten meat have in common? Nothing, I just can't look at it without having horrible flashbacks to this text. At least the format was interesting, with written emails and text messages. I thought at the very least, we would find out why it was being investigated by the police department. My theory is

Agnes met her demise after shitting the fucking tapeworm and THANK GOD was she stupid. Like I don't kink shame, but wtf was that

Was it worth it? I don't think so, and I also think I will not read any other book by this author unless I fully know what I'm getting into. It's not my type of horror, it felt like the topics I most dislike and find disturbing all mixed up for nothing, an example is

all the animal cruelty and killing that was portrayed, the constant discussion of childbearing and pregnancy, and eating rotten bug-filled food to get a parasite in the stomach, all for NOTHING

. It made me want to vomit, the worst is that it was very descriptive, to every excruciating detail. I especially hated the story of the poor baby, what even was the reason. It felt like those sick instances when people just talk about these tragedies for no reason but their sadistic pleasure. I can't keep on thinking about this book, it is not my cup of tea. However, I'm just one person, so be my guest if you're brave enough and have already eaten because after this you certainly won't be able to. I will recognize that the book was effective, it had all the disturbing qualities of good horror. It's just not for me, tho I did laugh sometimes.
I guess in the end, I would not be able to love you if there was a worm inside of you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Gore, Animal death, Child death, Toxic relationship, Body horror, and Animal cruelty

Okay, this is a brief explanation of what I would personally watch out for: Animal death and abuse:

Agnes kills a salamander, smashing it with a rock, and a cat is run over by a car.

Child death:

There is a story of how a teenager crucified his baby brother

Pregnancy/ Body horror/ Gore:

Agnes believes the parasite she carries is her baby, it is very detailed and treated like a sort of pregnancy.

Toxic Relationship:

The elephant in the room, literally the whole story is a toxic relationship, they even have a sponsor/ drudge contract