Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

90 reviews

spooderman's review against another edition

challenging dark funny reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Death, Vomit, Animal death, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Mental illness, Abandonment, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Homophobia, Misogyny, Antisemitism, Sexism, Cultural appropriation, Xenophobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: War, Racism, Cursing, Abortion, Miscarriage, Classism, Confinement, Medical trauma, Islamophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Medical content

xmifeng_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Child abuse, Addiction, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Excrement, Abandonment, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Violence, Rape, Abortion, Racism, Ableism, and Vomit

sarahjroos14's review against another edition

dark sad

0.25

Awful book especially if your mental health isn't good 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Drug use, and Medical content

leoni_plu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Classism, Mental illness, Abandonment, Vomit, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

aliciae08's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

When I first started reading My Year of Rest and Relaxation I struggled to follow a selfish and unlikable unnamed character who we are not supposed to find immediately relatable. She’s frequently described and describes herself as being gorgeous and blonde, and even as she begins to waste away she still looks unattainable. Her only friend tells her she looks like a litany of famous women who are renowned for their own beauty. On top of this, she has wealth enough that she can decide to do this experiment of sleeping for a year without having to worry about the financial repercussions of doing so. 

On the face of it, this novel seems to be telling us that if only we had money and beauty, then we, too could just check out for a year. We, too, could just sleep. 

However, as we find out more about our protagonist, it’s clear that this book is more about how we experience grief and abandonment and how we must figure out a way to cope in those issues even if we don’t care about our friend’s mundane problems.  

I really loved where the book went, even if staying in the protagonists’ head was sometimes annoying. I especially liked the last line even if it offered a bleak sense of living. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Abortion

astridrv's review against another edition

What a fever dream of a book. The concept worked, although I get reservations about the ending. The writing is enthralling, the narrator has a really strong voice and is clearly defined in all her layers and murkiness. It is a cold book (and do check the content warnings because it’s a lot), but also a little bit tender. It made me think, all along, may I never be or feel like that. But the narrator is aware of her world, of the game of rich and pretty she’s both winning and losing at. Finishing this book feels like walking out of a movie into daylight. I’m left engulfed, squinting, having spent a few hours in a life so distant from mine it can only have grown my empathy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Abandonment, Abortion, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Animal cruelty

pam_'s review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment

jgrhcklzccv's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Alcoholism, and Eating disorder

gin_and_books's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Addiction, Medical content, Grief, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Confinement

Moderate: Mental illness, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Abortion, and Panic attacks/disorders

medini_l's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Abandonment, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Excrement, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abortion, Addiction, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship