Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Mijn jaar van rust en kalmte by Ottessa Moshfegh

876 reviews

caljpg's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

I read this last year and it was interesting at first. It was so bad that I couldn’t look away. Then it got repetitive. By the end, I felt like there was no point to the book. I don’t understand why people like it so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Suicide

jolikesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

Empty but entertaining.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual assault

lailalee03's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Abortion, and Toxic friendship

catherinerowland's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Eating disorder, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion

kniholenka's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Eating disorder

ranchstylebeans's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Vomit, Abortion, Death of parent, and Alcohol

krmreads2024's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

This book turned a totally depressing story into something outrageously hilarious. The dark humour mixes the privilege and vanity of the characters with the dark and painful. The characters are all entertainingly awful, as well as being absurd and sad and human.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Self harm

Minor: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Toxic friendship

afields92's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

mh_reads's review against another edition

dark 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

2.0

Very interesting concept and fleshed-out psyche of the narrator. I did think it was a good depiction of grief and trauma. The theme of friendship that was explored was also touching to me.

However I felt that the right ideas and sentences were just flooded with randomness. I found it way too wordy, too long and because of this it lost important meaning. I really struggled through it because it was so slow. I understand that that might be the point but it just made me want to put the book down and I have read more meaningful depictions of depression using way less words. Then in contrast the ending felt rushed, unnecessary and hard to believe in the context of the rest of the book.

Another thing that bothered me was how much I felt like this was almost a guide of sorts. Like "How to go about dealing with trauma and coming back reset" There's a fine line there and to me it just felt dangerous to put this book out and act like in the end it just worked out for the main character.

But really a young woman that takes all kinds of pills with alcohol, blacks out for days on end, and puts her life in the hands of a strange man that wants to use her for art while she's passed out, is much more likely to not end up okay. While there is always special cases this wasn't openly reflected enough and that bothers and worries me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Abortion

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

jadew2000's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Abortion