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Everything The Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

34 reviews

gorbon's review against another edition

dark 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
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

If you’ve read LaRocca before you know by now that he never pulls punches, and this is no exception. While I wouldn’t consider this as fantastically visceral and nightmarish as his other creations, everything the darkness eats focuses instead on the emotional darkness that creeps on us when we’ve gone through trauma. Please read the trigger warnings! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Violence, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Excrement, Rape, Hate crime, and Torture

Moderate: Ableism, Vomit, and Child death

Minor: Islamophobia

micalyia's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

 It was uncomfy and dark and twisty. This book can be very triggering to check trigger and content warning.

It wasn’t scary but it was horrifying in the fact that it was just horrible how the characters keep getting knocked down by different situations 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Pedophilia, Hate crime, Grief, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Body horror, Death, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Excrement, Rape, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Stalking, Violence, Gore, Physical abuse, and Torture

rosage's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

what did i just read? i feel like i say that every time i read one of their books but i never know what i just read. this was dark, gross, uncomfortable, and one of the best reads i’ve probably ever had. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Religious bigotry, Violence, Homophobia, Blood, Body horror, Excrement, Gore, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

ffi_reads's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Thoroughly enjoyed this book that I received as an eARC from the author. 
Spoiler free review:
I just love the way Eric LaRocca writes! He has a beautiful style of writing with a poetic flair to it that I really enjoy. At the end of most of the chapters I wanted to highlight the last few sentences and make note of them due to how well they were written.
There were a lot of parts to the story and I think it would have benefitted from being a tad longer just to ‘bulk out’ some parts a little further. That being said, the book did what it intended and was a fun read and I will be recommending this to others.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Excrement, Homophobia, and Violence