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A review by nicolamb
Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca
2.0
What in the plot-holey hell was this? Other than an exercise into why the author should put the similes down, dammit! And also why the reader (hi!) shouldn't buy 3 books at full price by the same author in a single day without ever having read their work before. Please send help for the next two books I own and will occasionally glare at when I see them on my shelf and otherwise pretend they don't exist.
Honestly though, I counted 3 similes in a single paragraph and read them to my partner in the kitchen. We both laughed like dawn-speckled hyenas who had found the blown carcass of a recent kill that would see us through the aching desperation of another day on a god-forsaken prairie, whilst my partner stirred soup that simmered with the anguished cries and bubbles of despair apparent only in those who are lost and forgotten.
There is also a LOT wrong in this book with the depictions of trauma, which I won't say anymore about but please do be careful with that.
Please Mr. LaRocca, sometimes simpler is better. It honestly wasn't all bad though, after navigating the numerous plot holes (I can't even speak about the ending) and the over-stretched prose, the second-half did pick up & I was genuinely interested for at least 20 pages :/
Honestly though, I counted 3 similes in a single paragraph and read them to my partner in the kitchen. We both laughed like dawn-speckled hyenas who had found the blown carcass of a recent kill that would see us through the aching desperation of another day on a god-forsaken prairie, whilst my partner stirred soup that simmered with the anguished cries and bubbles of despair apparent only in those who are lost and forgotten.
There is also a LOT wrong in this book with the depictions of trauma, which I won't say anymore about but please do be careful with that.
Please Mr. LaRocca, sometimes simpler is better. It honestly wasn't all bad though, after navigating the numerous plot holes (I can't even speak about the ending) and the over-stretched prose, the second-half did pick up & I was genuinely interested for at least 20 pages :/