Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

37 reviews

shutupsylvia's review against another edition

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

chloe_k93's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

This book was a pointless creative writing exercise in violence towards queer people. Excruciating prose, subpar character development and very little plot line. Sexual assault so rarely elevates any part of a plot and this seemed to be done for 100% plot value. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Child death, Rape, and Kidnapping

theochick's review against another edition

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

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

jessereadsthings's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Homophobia, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Rape, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Child abuse and 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

sinisterbeard's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

2.5

Eric LaRocca is a potentially great novelist who's badly in need of a trad publishing editor. This reads like a great first draft, full of grammatical errors, fancy words used incorrectly, muddy plotting, and frustratingly foolish characters who take very little action and achieve nothing. With a year's polish at a proper house, this could have been Salem's Lot good, which is the book it most reminds me off. As it is, it's deeply frustrating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Homophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Body horror, and Kidnapping

Minor: Child death, Car accident, and Miscarriage

whodey_spaceman's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Homophobia, and Kidnapping

achay91's review

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

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