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2.76 AVERAGE
2.76 AVERAGE
medium-paced
dark
mysterious
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:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Rape
dark
mysterious
sad
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
dark
sad
slow-paced
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Too many similes! Take it easy dude
The writer isnt religious but she wrote the book for her mom... its about religion, and death and god and spirits and all that shit. No thanks.
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
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
medium-paced
I dont really see the point but it was probably something depressing. Made me sad which was lame.
The writing wasnt bad but it felt a little aimless and the ending wasnt great. It was giving I have no mouth and I must scream
The writing wasnt bad but it felt a little aimless and the ending wasnt great. It was giving I have no mouth and I must scream
This is a tricky one for me because, while I enjoyed several aspects of the book, I couldn't help feeling that it came up short in various regards.
On one hand, there are some interesting, and reasonably well fleshed out, ideas in "Everything the Darkness Eats," with its explorations of grief, suffering, desires for power or other enhancements to life and its typical circumstances, or the struggles often faced by members of marginalized communities, especially those that make up the LGBTQ+ spectrum; however, I often felt that those explorations didn't manifest into much beyond surface-level, borderline-cliche scenarios that ultimately didn't bring much new to the table, and in some cases only seemed to serve to reinforce simplistic and (I'd argue) outdated stereotypes regarding those facets of the storytelling.
I also took umbrage with the inconsistent and convenient behavior exhibited by several of the characters, who often came across as little more than puppets, saying and doing things required to advance the tale in a given moment in ways that to me frequently felt overly contrived and inauthentic. In some cases, those behaviors were retroactively justified via a core conceit of the story, which was fine, but I'm referring to characters outside that situation, who had little will or commitment to any of their established behaviors, schools of thought, or lines of reasoning when they might have become inconvenient to the progression of the plot as envisioned by the author.
I'd also slightly ding the prose for being a bit overwrought and melodramatic in spots in ways that to me felt forced and misplaced given some of the more mundane scenarios being described. There were certainly times when those elements were completely appropriate and impactful but I'd contend that the excessive use of such techniques throughout the text somewhat undermined their effectiveness when they otherwise would have hit harder if used more sparingly.
That said, I think the good parts of "Everything the Darkness Eats" ultimately outweigh the aspects I'm less enamored with and I would generally recommend it to cosmic horror fans in search of a quick read with a few tantalizing wrinkles. In particular, readers who are comfortable taking an intriguing, conceptual ball and running with it on their own will likely find a lot to ponder and enough loose ends to keep their minds pleasantly churning for a while after reaching "the end."
On one hand, there are some interesting, and reasonably well fleshed out, ideas in "Everything the Darkness Eats," with its explorations of grief, suffering, desires for power or other enhancements to life and its typical circumstances, or the struggles often faced by members of marginalized communities, especially those that make up the LGBTQ+ spectrum; however, I often felt that those explorations didn't manifest into much beyond surface-level, borderline-cliche scenarios that ultimately didn't bring much new to the table, and in some cases only seemed to serve to reinforce simplistic and (I'd argue) outdated stereotypes regarding those facets of the storytelling.
I also took umbrage with the inconsistent and convenient behavior exhibited by several of the characters, who often came across as little more than puppets, saying and doing things required to advance the tale in a given moment in ways that to me frequently felt overly contrived and inauthentic. In some cases, those behaviors were retroactively justified via a core conceit of the story, which was fine, but I'm referring to characters outside that situation, who had little will or commitment to any of their established behaviors, schools of thought, or lines of reasoning when they might have become inconvenient to the progression of the plot as envisioned by the author.
I'd also slightly ding the prose for being a bit overwrought and melodramatic in spots in ways that to me felt forced and misplaced given some of the more mundane scenarios being described. There were certainly times when those elements were completely appropriate and impactful but I'd contend that the excessive use of such techniques throughout the text somewhat undermined their effectiveness when they otherwise would have hit harder if used more sparingly.
That said, I think the good parts of "Everything the Darkness Eats" ultimately outweigh the aspects I'm less enamored with and I would generally recommend it to cosmic horror fans in search of a quick read with a few tantalizing wrinkles. In particular, readers who are comfortable taking an intriguing, conceptual ball and running with it on their own will likely find a lot to ponder and enough loose ends to keep their minds pleasantly churning for a while after reaching "the end."