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

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? It's complicated

0.25

Easily one of the worst books I've read in my life. Consists almost entirely of two twenty-something women, who get in touch through a LGBT forum over the sale of an apple peeler in the year 2000, inexplicably talking to each other like they're Victorian baronesses. One of these 21st century noblewomen keeps sending money to the other one and asking her to do increasingly fucked up things, which she does. This is intersped with graphic descriptions of violence that are only vaguely justified by the narrative. In the end 

the protagonist, who is for some reason obsessed with having a baby, is made to eat rotten beef. She then shits out a huge tapeworm and dies.

   

There are no supernatural elements in this novel.

Read literally anything else. The back of your shampoo bottle probably makes for better literature.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Lesbophobia, and Toxic relationship