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Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

48 reviews

achay91's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death and Murder

emilysunflowers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

r_o_s_e's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Child death, Islamophobia, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

frutista_freeze's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Rape and Violence

Minor: Kidnapping

avisnoctua's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Mental illness and Kidnapping

julesbarthe10's review against another edition

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

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

Moderate: Ableism, Gore, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

owlribbon's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

aparker89's review against another edition

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

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

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

afriendwithfiction's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, and Kidnapping