Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

Mi año de descanso y relajación by Ottessa Moshfegh

683 reviews

lacheese's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Abortion

menagerie_of's review against another edition

dark reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cancer, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Abortion and Alcohol

marymayne's review against another edition

4.0

A very strange book. I enjoyed it, could relate to some parts, found others funny and some absurd.

I have settled on interpreting it as a parody of how your brain works when you're mentally ill. If only you had a year to catch up on sleep and change everything about yourself, then you could come back better and beautiful and rich and be fixed and have no problems or shortcomings again ever.... then you read the main character doing it and see how it doesn't actually solve anything -

then the absurd ending where she sleeps for 4 months straight as an art piece then has an epiphany on her last sleep and is fixed! And she can go out in the world and forget about the whole thing. Yes that is how it would have to happen ~ if you don't put in the work to get better you'll just stay the same unless there is some medically induced divine intervention.

The 9/11 part was weird. I don't really understand why that was included, and it was so obvious from the moment it's set in NYC in the year 2000 that 9/11 will be a plot point. Then Reva gets a job in the Twin Towers..... I didn't think that added anything

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Abortion

effys's review against another edition

This book has definitely left me in need of something a bit lighthearted after that. 

This was a strange experience of a book, it definitely wasn't an enjoyable experience of a book but I liked reading it. The main character is hateable as all hell, she has one friend who is too nice for putting up with the MCs shit. 

My only real issue with the book was

it was so blatantly obvious that Reva was going to die in 9/11 i figured from the get go that 9/11 was going to be involved somehow because it's New York and it starts in 2000 but I feel like if we hadn't been told WHERE Reva was going to be working it could've been more impactful

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Abortion

jneverland's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Abortion and Abandonment

imds's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• 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: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

eachz's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.5

I need to reflect on this more to give a proper review, but I really enjoyed it. This is my second Moshfegh novel and I'm once again struck by how she crafts these characters who you love and hate and root for and want to slap all at the same time. They're simultaneously realistic and ridiculous. I guess that speaks to the satirical nature of this story. Idk there was something profoundly relatable about the core of this story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Abortion

Minor: Antisemitism and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

zaraha's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted reflective sad slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

jessiphillips's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

2.0

This book could have been really good if the protagonist had actually dealt with her trauma and if there had been real consequences for her substance abuse. Instead, this books gives the dangerous idea that substance abuse can solve your problems. There are no consequences for any of her actions or incredibly selfish and cruel behavior. 

Despite that, she is incredibly relatable (a year is sleep sounds so nice) it was almost a comfort to read someone’s thoughts who had no filter. All the bad thoughts that would cause me to pause and retract, she would carry on with. Unashamedly. She makes no effort at being kind. Her depression was overwhelming and her grief all consuming and if we saw her at a different point in life, maybe she would be different. 

Had there been real consequences for her behavior and actions and had her drug abuse been addressed in any manner at the end, this would probably have been a five star read. 

Also, Reva deserved better

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, and Abortion

rionstorm's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

0.25

This book sucks so bad... she was clearly trying to be ironic and failed... literally everything about it is irritating... the casual racism, the repetitiveness, her constantly talking about how pretty she is, how every character is cartoonish and one dimensional, the incredibly silly (and distasteful) ending... awful

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Racism, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Abortion, and Pregnancy