Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

155 reviews

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

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

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

booksofautumn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

visceralreads's review against another edition

fast-paced

5.0

read this during a zoom meeting and holy shit what did i just read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

qu1rr3l's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Pregnancy, Outing, and Gaslighting

kkeraunos's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

3.25

uhm okay wow first of all, it was a lot to take in, in such a short amount of time. from the start to the end it was just a RAPID change everytime they had a conversation. also MAJOR TW 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Vomit, and Pregnancy

supriti's review against another edition

dark funny 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Abortion, and Pregnancy

vanishing_librarian's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-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

4.0

Well, this was just absolutely weird! I did not really know what I was expecting before I picked this up apart from the fact that there are two people having conversations online and something horrific is going to happen.

Both of these things did happen in the story but I was absolutely not expecting it to get as weird as it did. Nonetheless I was hooked and wanted to know what will happen in the end!

Without giving any spoilers: I was expecting more from the end. For my taste it just ended too abruptly. Bit maybe that’s just because I am used to reading full-length novels?

Still, if this sounds interesting to you - go for it! It’s definitely worth a read. But maybe check out content warning first - this gets pretty gross occasionally. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Slavery, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal cruelty

cinnamon_'s review against another edition

1.0

Not gonna lie, this was one of the worst books I've ever read. It was just bad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Cannibalism, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

salvatorer2's review against another edition

• 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

The book was really distressing to read.

The detailed accounts of maiming, animal death, and recounted gruesome events from the news will probably stay with you long after. However, there was some missed oppotunities. I feel that the rabbit eating their babies was unneeded, as well as the priest running over the cat, because neither of them add anything to the themes of the story.

They were unnecessary. Just for shock value. Other than that, it was okay. Idk if im gonna read it again, but we’ll see

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail