Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca

338 reviews

jtkerlin's review against another edition

challenging 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

0.25

Will never read again, and likely never anything else by this author. Basically a short very dark LGBTQ 50 shades of gray, all in a bad way. The animal cruelty was not needed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Abandonment, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Animal death, Mental illness, Self harm, and Emotional abuse

freyanjani's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.0

???? i rly dk

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Violence, Animal death, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Toxic relationship

sweetpea4's review against another edition

dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death, and Mental illness

Minor: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Vomit

jaymerrick's review against another edition

dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cannibalism, Emotional abuse, and Pregnancy

sabrinahughes's review against another edition

dark

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, and Body horror

Minor: Animal death

spooky_coochie's review against another edition

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

2.25

the jump from “teehee we’re flirting ooooh im sexting you on AIM” to

”i am ingesting tapeworm eggs so i can pretend it is our child”

was way too quick. the buildup didn’t work. a short book that i still found entirely too long. everything that wasn’t

the worm

was inane and didn’t really believably establish their relationship anyways. the other “scares” felt very random and trite. ultimately, i think that the e-mail / AIM format really held it back. yeah, people can be obsessed with people they never met, people get freaky about online strangers all the time. but like, THEM?????? it just struck me as very amateurish, but that being said i DO want to watch this author grow and read more. there are a few bits here that go pretty hard. i mean, the

worm shit

WAS pretty dope, i just didn’t buy their relationship or characters at alllllll

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Toxic relationship, and Body horror

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, and Child death

worms / insects, implied eye impaling?

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

literally_mint's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Death, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Self harm, Violence, Body horror, Infertility, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Sexual content

fionaalanna's review against another edition

Probably should have read more into this one before starting. Not my cup of tea, shall we say.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Emotional abuse

arthur_ant18's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Body horror, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Vomit