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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca
95 reviews
saracosk's review against another edition
good book tho
(but like fr read content warnings and assume thar each warning is to the highest degree bc nothing will prepare u for this and it will make u nauseous fr b careful besties & protect ur peace)
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail
hellocath's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Vomit
Minor: Racism
annabookpaiges's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Mental illness, and Terminal illness
lauren_shilling's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke - 3 stars
The Enchantment - 4.5 stars
You'll Find It's Like That All Over - 4 stars
The average doesn't exactly come out to 3.75, but it's close enough to what that average is. But anyway, I don't really want to say that I enjoyed this, because enjoy is definitely not what I felt while reading this. It was still really good, though! Things Have Gotten Worse was a lot to digest, and I also don't know if I want to? It's just a very complicated reading experience, but it was still really good! The last two stories were really good too, and I liked those even more than the first one. I think that's because, while I thought Things Have Gotten Worse was really good, I didn't really enjoy the reading experience. I had more fun with the other two. That being said, I really, really liked it! I definitely want to read everything this author writes! I have a very complicated relationship to horror, where I like reading it, but I don't necessarily enjoy reading it. I don't think I'm explaining it very well, but this book fit very snuggly into that for me. However, I really liked it, and would recommend it (at least to people who like this kind of thing and have looked at the trigger warnings!!!).
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Self harm, and Violence
Moderate: Miscarriage
Minor: Homophobia
kalem's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship
dy_'s review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Pregnancy, and Abandonment
laurenvoice's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Child death, Gore, and Suicide
Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Murder
Minor: Racism and Lesbophobia
summersunautumnrain's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Moderate: Child death and Suicide
wallywoahjack's review
- 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
2.75
This book is dark. REALLY DARK. the first story had me gagging. The writing style is really good but it’s a rough read. The stories themselves are good but like I said it’s a physically rough read. The writing is good but there is a lot of triggering content so I’d be very careful to read the tags and know what your getting into.
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
rosage's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
-things have gotten worse: honestly, i wish it was longer. i felt as though there were some lose ends that i would like to see tied up. i know she died but how? did she go back to work? i would also like to have seen more of their relationship and how that played into everything. i love that it was told through dms and emails though. it’s such an interesting way to tell a story. i wish it was done more often.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide, Torture, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting