![]() ![]() ![]() However, I did walk into LaRocca’s gritty and emotional trap knowing it’d be a hit-and-run of a story. Call me old-fashioned, I like a slow burn with lots of detail. I often find it hard to get into a story where I don’t know what a character walks, talks, or looks like, let alone where they live. The avid “found footage” fan inside me thrived on the invasive aspect of reading Zoey and Agnes’s private messages on the premise of a police investigation in the aftermath. What’s between both ends of the cover certainly does it justice if not in the context of horror, then a perfect mixture of mystery, repulsiveness, and dysfunctionality. A melodramatic blue background swallows main character Agnes in an acrylic format with her eyes and head distorted like a cat’s tail dragged across the wet paint. If anyone asked me why Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke preceded all other books on my list, I’d tell them it was all about the cover. TikToks galore had been pushing La Rocca’s horror novella and encouraging me to add it to my extremely long list of books I knew I’d never read. I tend to spend my nights scrolling instead of rolling into bed. ![]() “What have you done today to deserve your eyes?” For starters, I read the popular horror novel, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca. ![]()
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