Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

30 reviews

kathann's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Self harm, Excrement, Gore, and Mental illness

anna_readssbooks's review

dark tense fast-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

3.0

What the actual fuck was this
lmao 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Slavery, Suicide, Excrement, Self harm, and Toxic relationship

nimbos's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Fast-paced, this book works like a police report of e-mail and message exchange. The format was the first thing that left an impression on me, making the whole plot feel much more impersonal.

What starts as a suspiciously innocent interaction (derived from the naïvety of one of the characters which can sometimes be almost irritating), soon turns into a twisted and dark tale that I couldn't have anticipated. While short, it still retains enough detail that allows the reader to have a vivid (too vivid) image of the events, even appealing to other senses. It's hard for me to find a piece of writing that makes my skin crawl, but this one did exactly that. As much as I found myself frustrated by the end of the book, with many questions unanswered, I think this is one of those cases that teaches you that you don't have to find the meaning behind everything.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Gore, Toxic relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Slavery, Mental illness, Sexual content, Torture, and Medical content

Moderate: Torture and Vomit

wiktoria_bojda's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Excrement, and Body horror

halaagmod's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.0

Ending was very abrupt, little character development, and the "disturbing" things felt they were more there for shock value than to serve any narrative purpose. Still a decent read, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death, Gore, Animal death, and Body horror

Moderate: Gaslighting, Cursing, and Excrement

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

I counted it as "body horror" since I don't know how else to describe it, but there's a scene in which the protagonist

eats a maggot-infested piece of steak, gets violently ill, and gets a tapeworm from it. She thinks that the tapeworm is a "child,"

which explains the "pregnancy" and "miscarriage" tags.

tobibi's review

dark fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Grief, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Pregnancy, Excrement, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

jpn99's review against another edition

dark reflective 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Excrement, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Child abuse, Lesbophobia, Blood, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

cecilyroseceillam's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

This is a book. Very triggering and disgusting about a depraved lesbian relationship. After reading this you will look at Apple peelers, tape worms and meat very differently.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Child death

charlizardbookboi17's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.75

This book was ROUGH but what a story. I was not prepared for that ending in any way, shape or fashion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Excrement, Self harm, Suicide, Body horror, Confinement, Torture, Gore, Grief, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

aetherkids's review

dark tense fast-paced

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Suicide, Pregnancy, Excrement, Toxic relationship, and Gore