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Moja godina odmora i opuštanja by Ottessa Moshfegh

42 reviews

angelica02's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Abandonment and Child abuse

ardour's review against another edition

challenging dark funny hopeful 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Drug use, and Death

Moderate: Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Violence, and Hate crime

Minor: Toxic relationship

ella_mai_46's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-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

4.5

amazing book, but very slow paced and quite long. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Ableism, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Drug use, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Child abuse, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, and Sexual assault

savzilla's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

marabdelmageed's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Ottessa Moshfegh is a brilliant writer — I truly enjoyed this book and the journey I went on. So immersive, it wasn’t until nearly the end of the novel that I realized we don’t learn the narrator’s name. The last sentence of the book was so great — I love how the growth of the narrator was so evident in one sentence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Drug abuse, Body shaming, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Excrement, Rape, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Abortion, and Death

bloohoney's review against another edition

dark funny reflective sad 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

She is an asshole that you feel relatable to, well...for me she is, let's be honest, the idea of sleeping for a year on not worrying sounds amazing
Then we have Reva, that you also can feel relatable to, once again, for me, and you get hurt by her story and hate how badly the main character speaks of her

Over all, i loved the book, even tho I despise her. I gave it a .5 because the ending wasn't what I was hoping for or expecting,

like the whole book deals with heavy subjects in a detached way but in the end it's like "wow, life is amazing, yeah, after a whole year drugged up i didn't develops an addiction even tho I threatened my best friend tho kill her bc she cares about me and took my pills away once....at least I think she did, i don't know, maybe i willingly gave them to her while I was out of it, hehe. So yeah, oh look the people in the park are so happy, I'm also happy, i magically have my shit together".......like wtf

so yeah, that's it, highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Vomit, and War

boutimar000's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-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

4.5

Incredible, worth the hype, don't read while too sad..... but the ending left me morally disappointed 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, and Drug use

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Death

hreads03's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Cursing and Panic attacks/disorders

knerys's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Minor: Abortion and Pregnancy

lovealwaysgracieliann's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Vomit