Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

54 reviews

chantel_stewart's review

adventurous reflective tense slow-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Self harm, Vomit, Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

praevalesco's review

1.0

Sometimes when you have ideas, it's okay to leave them in your drafts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Mental illness, Animal death, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Animal cruelty

cloud_z's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Abandonment, Medical content, Self harm, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Vomit, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

steffivandewouw's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Pregnancy, Slavery, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Animal death, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Outing, Lesbophobia, Death, and Vomit

swebby's review

dark fast-paced

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

3.0

It’s an extremely disturbing and uncomfortable read, one that will stay with me for a while. Although the writing is good, I think the ending needed developing more. It left me feeling a bit flat, like it needed another few pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Animal cruelty, and Medical trauma

wlw1tch's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

An intriguing, fast-paced downward spiral with a unique format. Not as shocking as people made it seem but definitely heed the content warnings, it does get graphic!
I wouldn’t go to this book for representation by any means, but the characters’ queerness makes certain parts of the narrative much more compelling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal cruelty, Death, and Medical content

Minor: Terminal illness and Vomit

All instances of animal death are described in graphic detail,

a salamander

and

a cat

as is one child (infant) death in which

the narrator describes a case she saw on the news wherein a baby is murdered by his brother

jiayuanc's review

dark fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Mental illness, Suicide, Medical trauma, and Sexual content

Minor: Abandonment

friendofdorothea's review against another edition

dark 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

Disgusting disturbing 
Why was this a sapphic couple? I would think Zoe was actually a man because what woman would do that it almost feels offensive as a lesbian to read this omg Im surprised I didn’t throw up. Also so weird that a man wrote this 
I don’t know why anyone would write this but not surprised that it wasn’t a woman that wrote this. Like how did this come into somebody’s head. Ew 🤮🤮🤮
This author needs to go to therapy 
Also I may never eat again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

little_noel's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

I literally can’t give this book a rating. I finished reading about 20 minutes ago and I still feel sick. I think this book gave me similar vibes as Bunny by Mona Awad (sorry if I spelled that wrong it’s 1am) except it had more gore and I liked this ending slightly better. It was interesting and I don’t regret reading, but I’m gonna need a few days to process this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Emotional abuse, Violence, Gore, Grief, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

teaselkie's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Animal death, and Body horror

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide attempt, Homophobia, Suicide, and Lesbophobia