We Can Never Leave This Place

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Can we all come to an agreement that Eric LaRocca is probably one of the most beautifully horrific authors that’s graced our bookshelves? Yes? Good. The novella is haunting and well written, leaving the reader constantly guessing if there is a deeper meaning behind the way Mara tells her story, or if there is something supernatural and sinister going on in her house. Like many splatterpunk stories, We Can Never Leave This Place normalizes the strange and grotesque, with the characters often experiencing unimaginable horrors casually. The pace of the book is perfect for its length, with significant build up before and unforgettable climax of horror and dread that will absolutely not leave your head. Content warnings for: mentions of child death, parent death, grief, unclean living situation, violence, murder, brief mention of rape, emotional and verbal abuse from a parent, animal violence/death, insects, body horror, brief descriptions of miscarriage/stillbirth, incest Let me just say this before I get into my review: if you haven’t read Eric Larocca, you absolutely need to.

I received this book for free from the Author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. We Can Never Leave This Place by Eric LaRocca

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Derekjr from Sandy, EnglandHotel California, however you choose to interpret the lyrics, with one of the greatest guitar solos ever it is just a wonderful piece of music!! Read not just about what Manson, Van Houten, Atkins, Fromme, and the rest did but also who they were, where they had come from, what they were looking for, the era... all great music is about love or the tragedy that occurs when it is absent (religious context LSD feels like it embodies the real intent of christian church dogma)

The chorus on Hotel California extolling it as a "lovely place", is because it is not of this world. Also, because all of us must land up there after death, when we do not have our bodies, and do not require physical space, there would naturally be "plenty of room at the Hotel California". Here it will help us if we remember that souls are spiritual, made of light, and do not occupy physical space. And so, let's examine the third stanza which says: John Jones from Salinas, CaliforniaThey stab it with there steely knives but they just can't kill the beast. One possible interpretation is murder with knives. I saw a murder with knives and it is an addiction for more murders. These murderers continue to kill. The man I saw murder is still loose. I'm like the one in the song running for the door and can never leave. Once they murder it becomes easier to kill again and again. There like normal people most of the time. The murderers will fool you. I'm the ghost of a man.

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I’ve read several of Eric’s works now, and have been genuinely captivated by each and every one. Their way with words is brilliant all on its own, but Eric has the plots and characters to flesh out all of that eloquence and give it a sturdy home that leads to the most memorable and truly special reading experiences. Unsurprisingly for anyone who’s a fan of this author’s works, We Can Never Leave This Place runs through a wide gambit of emotions, and left me feeling somehow both drained and fulfilled in the best way when it ended. Europeanqoheleth from Cork,irelandOn top 2000 a gogo Joe Walsh explianed that it was called Hotel California as people from different parts of America all went to California so California itself was like a hotel. It is very hard to organize one thoughts during the onset but eventually a coherent stream of thought begins to coalesce