Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

You've Lost a Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca

32 reviews

creatureof_nature's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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

1.0

Boring, messy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Body horror, Car accident, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, and Child abuse

poeple's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Abandonment, Car accident, and Death of parent

octobermontoya's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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

4.0

I, probably like many, came to You've Lost Alot of Blood after reading LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. It's really hard for another book to live up to THGWSWLS's reputation and just the experience of reading it for the first time - so it seems unfair to measure this one against that one. You've Lost Alot of Blood is doing a lot - it's almost like 3 books in one; poetry, a novella, and a screen play type thing (script?). Not as grotesque, shocking, and cinematic as THGWSWLS but still experimental, surprising, and unsettling. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Pedophilia, Cancer, Grief, Violence, Child death, Torture, Body horror, and Abandonment

likeagilmoregirl's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Car accident, Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Body horror, and Suicide

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Drug use, and Animal death

r_o_s_e's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Abandonment, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, Alcohol, Vomit, Pedophilia, and Death of parent

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-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

2.75

I sadly didn’t enjoy this one as much as his other. I just felt like the author should have just picked one storyline because I was confused the whole time( I finally realized what was the point with 1 page left of the book. I don’t know if it was explained earlier and I missed it or what). Also it was not even that scary or horrific(really only one part). The book part was honestly so boring and confusing. This one was just not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Body horror, Grief, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Child death, and Sexual assault

nithya_natalya's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.25

I have no idea what I just read, and I loved it! I read this so fast, and was just  utterly mesmerized by it. The prose was really beautiful without holding on to any lit fic pretensions. It still felt solidly rooted in genre fic. I really wasn't sure where this was going. I love horror that feel cyclical. It's so creepy and haunting, and this book pulled that off well. The structure of the book was an interesting approach, and a great way to break up the novella within the novel, and leave you with cliffhangers. The only thing I didn't like were the the transcripts of phone recordings. It felt like kind of a wacky, unrealistic way to get the killers' actual voices into the text, and didn't quite make sense to me. Who records themselves having convos, and then records their inner thoughts during the conversation over the original audio after the fact? Can you even do that on a phone? Was he using audio editing software on his laptop??! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Vomit, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Murder, and Body horror

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcohol, Car accident, and Blood

johnnytest's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Grief

msradiosilence's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

TLDR; 4 rating, and I’m not sure how I feel about this one.
Content warnings at the bottom. :)

Last year I read Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica, and much like that book, this one is difficult to review. I know I liked the book, but I’m not sure, exactly, how I feel. The book is well written, and I love the way it’s written. It reminds me of found fiction, and good found footage at that. 

The story reminds me a lot of

those spiraling, restarting horror movies I sometimes enjoy.

But again, much like with those kinds of movies, it’s hit or miss and hardly ever done well. While I called this particular twist, because these kinds of stories, movie or otherwise, are very formulaic, it was still interesting. 

There were some typos, but since this book was self-published, I’m not gonna hold it against LaRocca. 

Rating: 4
Would I recommend? Yes, especially if you enjoy movies like In the Tall Grass/Triangle/Happy Death Day, and true crime.

Content warnings: Car accident, Child death, Blood, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Vomit, Violence, Murder, and Sexual content

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Car accident, Death, Gore, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual content, Vomit, and Violence

mirnda's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

A book that demands to be reread as soon as you've finished it. The plot slithers in a delightfully disturbing circle, and the series of reveals near the end are perfectly foreshadowed in a way that hit my brain's dopamine button over and over. I've been devouring LaRocca's work over the past couple weeks, and this is my favorite so far.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Murder, and Body horror

Moderate: Vomit, Abandonment, Cancer, and Torture

Minor: Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Confinement, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident