A review by mitone_winona
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

challenging dark tense 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? It's complicated

0.25

I'll be honest; the book at first I thought sounded cool since the sypnosis hardly gave anything away when I first was considering it. And reading it at first I really liked how the author's note and the first 'chapter' really segway's into a crime report of how the two main characters first corresponded and so on. While it can be a bit jarring at first reading in email and text format, it's a nice change at first compared to other books.

However, the book ends up being about two women in a weird pseudo-BDSM 'relationship' as they continuously push the other over the edge and ends up being a trauma gore snuff story. While you may not think it sounds too bad, it IS.

Literally it's gross. Bug and Vomit TW warning in this spoiler below:

 
The woman who is the 'dom' makes the other get infected with a tape worm over some crap about being alive and deserving eyes and also treating being infected with the parasite as a pregnancy and both calling it their child. The woman infected treats throwing up as morning sickness after she ate raw meat to get infected as instructed by her 'dom'.
 

Please don't read unless you want to be disgusted and appalled. Also the author is a typical "My mind is a twisted place and I had to control it-" Type of person. Seriously, read the Author's end notes at the end of the story for that type of attitude.
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