Reviews tagging 'Violence'

You've Lost a Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca

38 reviews

elbell1012's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.0

  Weird!
I can confidently say I've never read another book like this. It's formatted as a collection of documents from a serial killer after he and his partner disappeared, published in homage to their victims. There are poems, which we at first are meant to believe are written by Martyr (the killer), but end up being just stolen from the people he murdered.
The story of Tamsen and Pres is the most engaging part of this book. The set up is great, and seeing the loop reset itself was really interesting.
I would recommend this to someone who is in the mood for a disturbing vibe (is to be disturbed to be scared) but absolutely no plot. Stay away from this if you aren't into body horror or you're looking for narrative writing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Body horror

moxiemin's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

1.5

Ok so I will be honest while starting this review the first question is about the plot... What plot?  Like seriously where is the plot.  I normally love when you have the book within a book stories.  But neither one of the stories were complete.  Or made any sense in general if you ask me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

ghouligann's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

It’s actually so sad that I can’t justify giving this a higher review. I adore the author’s writing style. The prose in this story was really nice. I truly hated the lack of a solid plot and the novella inside this story was my least favorite part of it. Which is unfortunate, since it makes up a majority of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Violence, and Gore

florecita_lectora's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Violence, Death, and Murder

grimicarian's review against another edition

I can't. Idk. Man. Idk. Doesn't vibe wirh me. I love disturbing horror but I can't stand this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Alcoholism and Vomit

sapphicvisuals's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

octobermontoya's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I, probably like many, came to You've Lost Alot of Blood after reading LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. It's really hard for another book to live up to THGWSWLS's reputation and just the experience of reading it for the first time - so it seems unfair to measure this one against that one. You've Lost Alot of Blood is doing a lot - it's almost like 3 books in one; poetry, a novella, and a screen play type thing (script?). Not as grotesque, shocking, and cinematic as THGWSWLS but still experimental, surprising, and unsettling. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Pedophilia, Cancer, Grief, Violence, Child death, Torture, Body horror, and Abandonment

biobeetle's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Violence, Alcoholism, Abandonment, and Alcohol

addythebookbat's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Violence, Death, Gore, Grief, Torture, Cannibalism, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.75

I sadly didn’t enjoy this one as much as his other. I just felt like the author should have just picked one storyline because I was confused the whole time( I finally realized what was the point with 1 page left of the book. I don’t know if it was explained earlier and I missed it or what). Also it was not even that scary or horrific(really only one part). The book part was honestly so boring and confusing. This one was just not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Body horror, Grief, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Child death, and Sexual assault