Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

You've Lost a Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca

19 reviews

creatureof_nature's review

dark mysterious slow-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

1.0

Boring, messy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Body horror, Car accident, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, and Child abuse

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

r_o_s_e's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Abandonment, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, Alcohol, Vomit, Pedophilia, and Death of parent

readingwithbritney's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? N/A

4.0

I went into this book completely blind, and I'm glad I did! I was so entertained by this. There's 2 stories within the novella, and some poetry as well. I didn't know what to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised. It's not super violent or gory, but it does have a ton of suspense, and a few moments that sent chills down my spine. I would highly recommend this book to people that like psychological horror. I don't want to give much away, because I truly feel like everyone should go in blind on this one!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Murder, Vomit, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Gore, Alcohol, Body horror, and Violence

nithya_natalya's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.25

I have no idea what I just read, and I loved it! I read this so fast, and was just  utterly mesmerized by it. The prose was really beautiful without holding on to any lit fic pretensions. It still felt solidly rooted in genre fic. I really wasn't sure where this was going. I love horror that feel cyclical. It's so creepy and haunting, and this book pulled that off well. The structure of the book was an interesting approach, and a great way to break up the novella within the novel, and leave you with cliffhangers. The only thing I didn't like were the the transcripts of phone recordings. It felt like kind of a wacky, unrealistic way to get the killers' actual voices into the text, and didn't quite make sense to me. Who records themselves having convos, and then records their inner thoughts during the conversation over the original audio after the fact? Can you even do that on a phone? Was he using audio editing software on his laptop??! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Vomit, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Murder, and Body horror

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcohol, Car accident, and Blood

hocuscrocus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Alcoholism and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer and Medical content

_lera_'s review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Body horror, and Blood

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, and Cancer

keen's review

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Vomit, Child death, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Cancer, Car accident, and Death of parent

kkalicky94's review against another edition

dark 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Body horror, Cancer, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Pedophilia

kairipaopu12's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Car accident, Death, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Alcohol and Cursing

Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia