Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

113 reviews

toksoplazmozy's review

dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Grief, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Ableism, Blood, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

eva_wel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense fast-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

3.75

This book encourages a reader to view the gory and disturbing realities behind the human mind, revealing a haunting and fascinating view of unconscious desires and hopes which challenge the socially acceptable and rational. The slow deterioration of the main character’s moral compass hint to the consuming power that money and greed can have over a person, encouraging them to become increasingly self serving and careless in their actions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Rape, Grief, Cannibalism, and Murder

ggherrera's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Excrement, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Pedophilia, Self harm, and Excrement

Minor: Incest, Suicide, Grief, and Murder

rtinney's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

shmayjoy's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

noisivweneht's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

3.75

Debauchery is a great word for this book. Ottessa is really good at making characters you want to feel bad for and then two sentences later make you hate. I don’t even know what to say. I like dark books, but I think I flew too close to the sun on this one. It was still good. Very very fucked. But good.

Marek is a little fucking weirdo and I cannot believe what he did that the end, well, I can. But dude.

I don’t think I’ve ever hated characters as much as I hated the ones in this book. The ending was expected and felt a little rushed and just lackluster I guess. It was still good. And it will be on site shovel in hand beating these mfs 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

jully_bean's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

adampjt's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective

5.0

one of the strangest things I've ever read and one of the best. tore through this and loved every page

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Vomit, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Excrement, Grief, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Incest and Miscarriage

cleotheo's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

Holier than thou.
You are in for a ride. Lots of Christianity in here, but not in a missionary sort of way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Excrement, Vomit, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage

emmayoung95's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail