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lilybear3 's review for:
We Can Never Leave This Place
by Eric LaRocca
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
No
I thought this was alright. I read a few of his other stories before this one and I think I liked the short stories slightly better. However, I liked that this was longer story that gave more time to develop characters and have more horrifying things happen. I don't think there's an official CW for insects, so this is your warning. This was definitely depraved and disgusting at many times, if not the whole thing. The questions I am left with are: Where the bugs/creatures she imagined big? Why/how did she imagine the people as bugs/creatures? Were the people cannibals? Is the reason they can't leave their home is the outside war/apocalypse? LaRocca's work usually leaves me with questions, but that might be the point. It was creepy and horror-filled.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Rape, Self harm, War
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Incest