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A review by ethantw00
We Can Never Leave This Place by Eric LaRocca
2.0
2.5 Stars
There’s definitely something to be said for LaRocca’s prose. The detail work and imagery are pretty darn good.
(But please hire a new editor. Please because there’s also a shit-ton of line work that’s needed to be done to clean up some repetitive words and other stuff. It ceases to be a nitpick when it’s so prevalent.)
The pacing of this here little book was also super solid. I sped through this thing faster than I thought I would.
Other than that though, I just really didn’t find much to love here. It’s a good one-sitting brain dead read with a simple message and a ton of shock value to please all the weirdos out there (I count myself among this number). Unfortunately for me, shock value is nothing without substance, and there just wasn’t really much to chew on here (pun 100% intended).
Also, the ~twist~ was pretty damn easy to spot, especially since it’s been done before in a book/movie that’s, well, ya know, good. It’s kinda hard to count that as a fault just because it does open a door to some of the fantastical and gross imagery that carried this through to the end. There’s a string of scenes in particular that reminded me of Darren Aronofsky’s film, “mother!”
But yeah if you like incest, cannibalism, a shit-ton of shit, gore and Life of Pi, I’d recommend checking this little book out.
There’s definitely something to be said for LaRocca’s prose. The detail work and imagery are pretty darn good.
(But please hire a new editor. Please because there’s also a shit-ton of line work that’s needed to be done to clean up some repetitive words and other stuff. It ceases to be a nitpick when it’s so prevalent.)
The pacing of this here little book was also super solid. I sped through this thing faster than I thought I would.
Other than that though, I just really didn’t find much to love here. It’s a good one-sitting brain dead read with a simple message and a ton of shock value to please all the weirdos out there (I count myself among this number). Unfortunately for me, shock value is nothing without substance, and there just wasn’t really much to chew on here (pun 100% intended).
Also, the ~twist~ was pretty damn easy to spot, especially since it’s been done before in a book/movie that’s, well, ya know, good. It’s kinda hard to count that as a fault just because it does open a door to some of the fantastical and gross imagery that carried this through to the end. There’s a string of scenes in particular that reminded me of Darren Aronofsky’s film, “mother!”
But yeah if you like incest, cannibalism, a shit-ton of shit, gore and Life of Pi, I’d recommend checking this little book out.