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Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

22 reviews

julesbarthe10's review

challenging dark

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

3.0

Eric LARocca never cease to leave me in utter "WTF-hood" after I read one of his books. I think I've become addicted to the utter confusion they cause me. Everything the Darkness Eats hits on topics of homophobia, severe grief, devote worship, idiotic adults, and of course god is there also. A luring old man seems to seamlessly convincing people to join him in his creepy home so he can show them something beyond there wildest dreams, and then no one hears from them again. Ghost (the MC) can save them though, at least that is what the old man tells him. Only he can set them free, and all he has to do is trust the weird old man. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Homophobia, Violence, Sexual violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Blood, Sexual assault, Death, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Grief, and Child death

mraible18's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No

2.0

Giving this 2 stars instead of 1 because I saw some potential in the premise and also honestly because I liked the audiobook narrator. This is the first of Eric LaRocca’s books I’ve read and I still might give one of their others a try, but was not a fan of this one. 

I get that horror can be nature be very violent. One of my favorite horror novels is insanely, grotesquely violent, not necessarily in dissimilar ways from this book. But all of the violence and the trauma here felt entirely gratuitous,

especially once the trauma is literally erased from the character’s mind like nothing happened??

I didn’t care about any of the characters because the over usage of similes kept me at a distance or zoning out on what was actually happening. I found myself listening to the audio book on a super high speed just to get through the rest of the novella because I was bored.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Car accident, and Hate crime

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Ableism, Gore, and Kidnapping

mindysbookjourney's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Grief, Homophobia, and Hate crime

Minor: Car accident, Death, Pedophilia, Ableism, Biphobia, and Child death

owlribbon's review

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Car accident, Sexual assault, Blood, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Death, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Religious bigotry, Excrement, and Homophobia

aparker89's review

dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

A fast-paced supernatural mystery that will leave you begging for mercy. Not only will you feel sorrow, you can feel the slash of the knife. While you witness some truly horrific events in this story, most are not so far fetched as to be unbelievable. You feel for every person you meet and the evil lurking is both ethereal and too real! With any luck, you might finish unscathed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Excrement, Homophobia, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Islamophobia, and Blood

Minor: Body shaming, Biphobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, and Confinement

caidyn's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

With how this book started, I thought it would end up as one of my favorites. Yet, it didn't. I would have loved it if it hadn't split in so many directions and the threads coming together wasn't as satisfying as I'd hoped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Excrement, Hate crime, Torture, Blood, Homophobia, and Rape

Moderate: Car accident and Biphobia

riflelizards's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Car accident, and Excrement

Minor: Child death, Death, Biphobia, and Medical content

allena_inwonderland's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

3.5

What I liked: descriptive writing style, that kept me going. The immediate attention to detail.
Short and quick chapters 
The beginning 
Prologue was actually one of my favorite parts and I wanted more!

What I didn’t like:
Unnecessary gang rape 
Malik not knowing how to defend himself & forgetting 
That epilogue?!
I didn’t like how some story lines weren’t flowing like it felt like fluff 

So-so:
Religious aspects 
- I have my own problems w religion but it was interesting for me to read something so interwoven with biblical aspects from someone (LaRocca) not being of faith and I get it is for his mom 
Is that why we got that epilogue 👀
- The synchronicity‘s with biblical stories
Specifically I felt this brought attention to the anti christ & how in the Bible it talks about them deceiving people to gather a following and that’s exactly what I was seeing portrayed. 

Also Ghost and Mr. Crowley differences and relationship. 
Book shows a good portrayal of grief.

Lots of thoughts but don’t want to spoil the story!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Car accident, Blood, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Death

Moderate: Suicide

mikepalumbo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Torture, Car accident, Violence, Rape, Gore, Blood, Homophobia, and Hate crime

Moderate: Pedophilia

rhiannonafternoon's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Do not underestimate the impact of the horror this book can impart based on its size. A collection of people all falling under the spell of a mysterious man in small town CT, with a side story of horrible homophobia and related crimes. Surprisingly a happy ending, but wow is there a lot to unpack here. I really loved it, you just have to experience it yourself.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Hate crime, Grief, Death, Homophobia, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Rape, Physical abuse, Excrement, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use