Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

24 reviews

peckreadsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Child death, Suicide, Murder, Vomit, Grief, Death, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse, Torture, Miscarriage, Murder, Self harm, and Pregnancy

moonamidheaven's review

challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

2.0

...interesting...

it's a bit too graphic for my personal taste and very obviously written by a man

don't really remember why this was on my tbr

atleast it was a quick read & i got it over in a day 😧

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

bloomlove's review

dark 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

Literally only writing a review of this book to say DO NOT READ THIS. It’s terrible awful vile and disgusting I would not recommend this to anyone just save yourself and don’t even go near it. Don’t even look this books way it’s not worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Abortion, Mental illness, Death, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Blood, and Gore

harmon's review

dark fast-paced

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

2.75

It was a very short and fast, but difficult read. I'm even surprised that I didn't throw up whilst I was reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Child death, Blood, Gore, Death, and Body horror

crypticbutton's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

1.5

I really have no idea what to say besides WTF.
The build up was great but the end came suddenly without any really closure. There is probably some 'deep' thing going on here but it really felt like the author was just throwing stuff on the page to shock the readers than really try to carve out a story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Animal cruelty

hannahhicken's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Torture, Medical content, Violence, Vomit, Murder, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Gore, Sexual content, Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, and Self harm

salvatorer2's review

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

The book was really distressing to read.

The detailed accounts of maiming, animal death, and recounted gruesome events from the news will probably stay with you long after. However, there was some missed oppotunities. I feel that the rabbit eating their babies was unneeded, as well as the priest running over the cat, because neither of them add anything to the themes of the story.

They were unnecessary. Just for shock value. Other than that, it was okay. Idk if im gonna read it again, but we’ll see

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Gore, Homophobia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Child death, Death, Pregnancy, Violence, Animal cruelty, Grief, Hate crime, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Animal death, and Body horror

moss_martii's review

dark tense fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Violence, Body horror, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Self harm, and Torture

kaymichelle's review

dark sad fast-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Torture, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Death, Animal cruelty, and Toxic relationship

fidoisblue's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit