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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes

Eric LaRocca

3.24 AVERAGE

fostkay's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

divazumaya's review against another edition

2.5

dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Vomit, Grief

Minor: Sexual content, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol

saystara's review against another edition

1.0

slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

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What was the point of this. Thought the first story was going somewhere but it doesn't. Did think the format was interesting but the way both characters talked pulled me out of it a lot. 

Just not for me.

guineadogs's review against another edition

2.0

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

krissymissy's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

astrobabe18's review against another edition

2.75

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

jelyb's review against another edition

3.0

dark tense

maddy_walock's review

4.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

doomf717's review against another edition

3.0

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First story I’d give ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Second story ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Third story ⭐️1/2

Last story felt kind of xenophobic tbh

hedgefruit's review against another edition

2.25

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Readable prose, but none of this really hit quite right. The titular short story felt like a poor attempt at doing Brainwyrms (which I didn't love, but at least it nailed the execution in a way that this didn't). It all felt like it wanted to be meditations on humanity but it couldn't do something really compelling. As I recently saw someone say about a different piece of media: it's all sauce, no meat.