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smalltimereadsThings Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca is published by Weird Punk Books, which specializes in weird/dark horror.
I'd never heard of this book until last week, when I saw it face out in the Horror section at the bookstore. Since then, I've seen three different people talking about it. Life is weird like that sometimes! I was intrigued by the cover, with the blurred, meaty face and the ending line of the summary: "What have you done today to deserve your eyes?"
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is short and dark and about two women who enter into a fucked up 24/7 D/s relationship after meeting online, told through emails and chatlogs compiled by an unnamed author following an implied crime. It promised body horror, and it delivered in ways I found deliciously creepy and ways that just kind of grossed me out, but thankfully not in the ways that viscerally upset me (I know it's horror but there's a type of body horror that makes me panicky, which I do not enjoy).
I don't really know how to review this book, though! It was creepy! I love epistolary fiction, and seeing the back and forth between Agnes and Zoe was fascinating. I wouldn't recommend this to someone unless they explicitly wanted fucked up f/f. I don't think I'd read it again but also...I really want to know more about them. It was the perfect length for the story it was telling but I wanted more, which is a good thing!
I'd never heard of this book until last week, when I saw it face out in the Horror section at the bookstore. Since then, I've seen three different people talking about it. Life is weird like that sometimes! I was intrigued by the cover, with the blurred, meaty face and the ending line of the summary: "What have you done today to deserve your eyes?"
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is short and dark and about two women who enter into a fucked up 24/7 D/s relationship after meeting online, told through emails and chatlogs compiled by an unnamed author following an implied crime. It promised body horror, and it delivered in ways I found deliciously creepy and ways that just kind of grossed me out, but thankfully not in the ways that viscerally upset me (I know it's horror but there's a type of body horror that makes me panicky, which I do not enjoy).
I don't really know how to review this book, though! It was creepy! I love epistolary fiction, and seeing the back and forth between Agnes and Zoe was fascinating. I wouldn't recommend this to someone unless they explicitly wanted fucked up f/f. I don't think I'd read it again but also...I really want to know more about them. It was the perfect length for the story it was telling but I wanted more, which is a good thing!
