Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Mi año de descanso y relajación by Ottessa Moshfegh

80 reviews

anxiousbookclub's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Death of parent, Death, Eating disorder, Confinement, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Rape

charnyreads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

ruthywithas's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

4.0

A comically dark and harrowing account of one woman's descent with her mental health. The author intelligently crafted descriptions of the narrator's experience that were uncomfortable as they were insightful. I thought it was an incredible insight into the true horrors of loneliness and poor mental wellbeing. The author managed to craft descriptions that perfectly captured how I'd felt at my lowest and this was ultimately a tense but comforting read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Rape, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

xwritingstoriesx's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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

4.5

4.5 stars! This was a strange pivot from my usual reads. I'm not usually one for unlikeable main characters, though I do enjoy the perspective of a strong woman, this was most certainly the opposite. This book follows a young woman cocooning herself in order to heal, originating from a 19th century treatment referred to as the rest cure. It was simply vicereal, raw and sepulchral. I felt conflicted, alternating between sympathising with her and despising her. The tone of the book perfectly encapsulates the unstable mind we are peering into.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Grief, Cancer, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Confinement, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape

leapyear_reader's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Excrement, Sexual content, and Vomit

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Violence, Abortion, Alcohol, and Bullying

Minor: Classism, Racism, Rape, and Adult/minor relationship

soswiin's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? Yes

4.0

no plot just three hundred pages of unfathomable levels of drug abuse

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Infidelity, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Cancer

katiecatlady's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

A brilliant homage to women in the early 2000s

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Vomit, Addiction, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Alcoholism, Drug use, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abortion

phatchopstix's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

always interesting to see into the mind of a substance abuser, which the main characters definitely is. 

she is also unlikeable but you still find yourself becoming attached to her despite her infuriating personality. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Toxic friendship, Classism, Body shaming, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, and Rape

Moderate: Body horror, Eating disorder, Cursing, Cancer, and Child abuse

bootsmom3's review against another edition

dark reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Confinement, Eating disorder, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual content, Body shaming, Cursing, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Minor: Infidelity and Medical content

jessicaludden's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-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

“There she is, a human being, diving into the unknown, and she is wide awake.”

So, I hated this. The only reason I didn’t DNF is because my friends were reading it with me, but trust me I really wanted to. And I never DNF a book. I understand exactly what the author was trying to do with this book. I get it. I just think it was executed poorly and I didn’t like it. The character is unlikeable on purpose, but not even in an entertaining way. If you’re gonna make your protagonist unlikeable, it has to mean something. Nothing happened in this book. It was super repetitive and gave so many unnecessary details that I almost fell asleep many times while reading. Maybe it gave an accurate representation of the monotony of depression? But was that enough to interest me? Nope. The sarcasm and humor in this book was funny at times, but most of the time it really really wasn’t. It felt like when someone says they have dark humor, but really they just say a bunch of offensive things for the sake of shock value. Nothing about the plot (what little there was of it) was shocking. Some of the “jokes” were shocking, but they were ultimately just unfunny. They weren’t even funny in an ironic way. The ending was very rushed disappointing. I didn’t care about a single thing in the book and I’m glad it’s over. 

“Favorite” Quotes:

“I wanted to hold on to the house the way you’d hold on to a love letter. It was proof that I had not always been completely alone in this world.”

“Die young and leave a beautiful corpse.”

“She wasn’t resting. She was not in a state of peace. She was in no state, not being. The peace to be had, I thought, watching them pull the sheet over her head, was mine.”

“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.”

“I was the vacant, repressed depressive, and she was the obsessive blabbermouth, always knocking on my door, asking random questions, looking for any excuse to talk.”

“And that was exactly what I wanted—my emotions passing like headlights that shine softly through a window, sweep last me, illuminate something vaguely familiar, then fade and leave me in the dark again.”

“My blind eye was the one real comfort I felt I could give her.”

“‘You’ve got friends, you’re alright, no matter what.’”

“‘Sometimes friends are better than family, because you can say anything. Nobody gets mad. It’s a different kind of love.’”

“…there was stability in living in the past.”

“What would come later would be only sort remembrances of the thing called love she used to give me.”

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Grief, Mental illness, Homophobia, Racism, Toxic relationship, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia