Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

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

340 reviews

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

---

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.

---

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

---

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

tkatt20's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

Disgusting but I couldn't stop reading. I loved the interesting formatting and the storytelling itself, but I can definitely see how other reviewers are getting "trauma porn" from this. Very torn between loving this and hating this so it gets 3 stars 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

autisaur's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

---

Content Warnings

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

little_noel's review against another edition

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. 

---

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

kendalsbookcase's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Animal cruelty, Violence, Self harm, Body horror, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

xsamwise's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

0.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Gore, Mental illness, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

natsumikan's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Body horror, and Toxic relationship

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. 

---

Content Warnings

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