Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

44 reviews

912jae's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Grief, and Rape

Moderate: Excrement, Car accident, Blood, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Child death, Death, and Pedophilia

ecn's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.25

So good but not much of a build up and the quickest resolution/wrap up, which left me wanting more

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Body horror, Biphobia, Torture, Grief, Gore, Child death, Car accident, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Hate crime, Blood, Medical content, Homophobia, Rape, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Excrement

sphinxofblackquartz's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Homophobia, Torture, and Rape

Moderate: Excrement

sixtimes's review

dark tense medium-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

I am so sorry, but this is the worst book I’ve read in my life. Character development is nonexistent, the word monster ceases to have a meaning with how often it is used, women and disabled characters are used as props, and gratuitous violence and sexual violence that do nothing to move the story, just
violence for the sake of violence. Yeah yeah I’m sure it’s a metaphor for how humans were the real monsters all along but god it was almost impossible to sit through. I HIGHLY recommend not reading this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Torture, Homophobia, Rape, and Hate crime

shutupsylvia's review

dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.75

This honestly isn’t my fave from LaRocca, I felt like the pacing was super slow and it made it harder to stay interested, but overall I did enjoy the characters and story overall. LaRocca created such a cool cosmic horror, that I wish it had played a larger role in the story as a whole. Humans are the real monsters of this story 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Torture, Homophobia, Violence, Hate crime, and Kidnapping

Minor: Kidnapping

i wish we hadn’t gone with the violent hate crimes but it is an LGBT horror novel so i guess that is to be expected in some capacity.

Humans truly are the monsters of this story

theochick's review

challenging dark

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

1.0

This book had an interesting concept and incredibly poor execution. Definitely mind the content warnings (I probably missed some)! Prologue sets up a way more enjoyable/fun story than the book delivers which I think makes it even more disappointing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, Islamophobia, Grief, Violence, Religious bigotry, Rape, Gore, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Torture

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Pedophilia

saint_eleanor's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

2.0

This was so brutal dawg

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Homophobia, and Sexual violence

neva383's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Torture, Rape, Homophobia, Racism, and Mental illness

Minor: Pedophilia

heartofhorrors's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Homophobia, Car accident, Excrement, Grief, Murder, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Gore, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Biphobia, Hate crime, Islamophobia, and Violence

annemariemulksibb's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual violence, and Homophobia

Moderate: Car accident