Reviews tagging 'Death'

내 휴식과 이완의 해 by Ottessa Moshfegh

458 reviews

chidera's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Mental illness, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicide, and Infidelity

Minor: Abortion

lebron_jamie's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Suicide, and Sexual assault

lillihms's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

bin beim lesen teilweise selbst in hibernation gefallen.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Cancer, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Sexism, Vomit, Mental illness, Death, Drug abuse, and Self harm

Minor: Abortion

amelianotthepilot's review against another edition

1.5

I dont understand the hype for this book. I feel like I remember people raving about this a few years ago but I truly found this whole book horribly depressing and meaningless. It gave Holden Caulfield vibes in the worst way. 

I guess you could say its a feminist book representing women in the worst way, women can be horrible too, women contain multitudes. I'm also pretty positive it doesn't pass the reverse Bechdel test (men are rarely mentioned and only in reference to sex). Which I guess is interesting... idk overall I thought it was terribly boring and depressing.

The main character is in her 20s, both her parents have passed away which she says she has come to terms with but clearly still deeply affects her. She has decided she wants to sleep her life away. She goes to a bad therapist complaining of sleep problems so she can get prescribed increasingly wild drugs. She then takes a cocktail of drugs in efforts to fully sleep through the rest of life to varying success. Her therapist is an extremely hippie unhinged bad therapist, her best friend is extremely vain and fake, her deceased mother was an alcoholic and uncaring. Overall every single character was unbearable and annoying and I don't feel like I particularly learned or gained anything from reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Confinement, Eating disorder, Abortion, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Vomit, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Addiction, Dysphoria, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

genielong's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Vomit, Abortion, and Cancer

sheloves_toread's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Eating disorder, and Vomit

Minor: Death, Death of parent, and Eating disorder

7juniormint's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Suicide

gryjohansson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Addiction, Mental illness, and Death

Moderate: Eating disorder and Vomit

Minor: Abortion, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

thaliaw's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Drug use, Terminal illness, Abortion, Suicide, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Grief, Drug abuse, Body shaming, Death of parent, Confinement, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death

chewie's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Maybe it just wasn't for me

Not a single likeable character, cartoon villain parents and the only redeemable one is Reva and I hated her the whole time. Somehow knew the whole time that 9/11 was going to be incorporated but still laughed at how absurd it was at the end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Toxic friendship, and Mental illness