Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous

20 reviews

dmackreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.0

In summary I feel like this book is about a man getting hurt once, choosing to hurt everybody else afterwards and getting off on it even though the reason he got “hurt” the first time was his own fault, and then getting a little taste of his own medicine too. I had a lot of “wtf” moments and a few laughs due to dark humor. Being only 151 pages it’s a super quick read that kept me interested until the end because I wanted to understand the point and know what would happen. 

Personally I get drawn into stuff like this because I’m always curious to understand the minds of fucked up people. On the flip side I feel like the more I try to understand troubled characters the more conflicted I feel. 

The #1 complaint I see in other reviews is how “horrible the narrator is” I mean yeah… He’s an addict who is also giving sadistic psychopathic narcissist who needs to seek serious help. Why we are giving a book a shitty rating because the MC is shitty is crazy to me because sometimes that’s the literal point of the book. You don’t have to like him and maybe it’s not your thing but the book itself is good. It’s a “diary” of a mad man essentially. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Addiction, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

xoxo_emmalynn's review against another edition

dark 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

1.5

This book is quite literally one of the most difficult books to get through. The actual writing is awful and there really no point to the story. The main character and author I’m assuming is whiny and annoying throughout the whole book. Honestly almost DNF the writing was so bad. The main character when on many tangents about unimportant information that doesn’t help progress the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

hallelizak's review against another edition

dark tense 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

umarshahzad's review against another edition

It was really disturbing of how a person would think of hurting girls like that. As Jack Edwards said “it wants to be like Lolita so bad”. It fails to explore the women in another way other than them being commodities. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

kalasbea's review against another edition

dark 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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Rape and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Stalking and Death of parent

spectraljuice's review against another edition

This guy sucks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Toxic relationship

katreads6's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-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

3.0

Interesting to see in the mind of a narcissist, but very slow and pretty boring. You’re grabbed in by the first lines of the book, but it goes away shortly after. It’s not fiction and the authors true story, but didn’t hold up to the grab the first lines/pages held. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Mental illness, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Domestic abuse, and Gaslighting

tamaramoralessss's review against another edition

reflective fast-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

jinx_mars's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexism, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Infidelity

sophietoes's review against another edition

dark 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

2.0

honestly the problem with this book for me wasn’t even the narrator being a raging misogynistic/narcissistic sexual predator because i felt like that was kind of supposed to be the point (though it definitely wasn’t executed well). the main thing with it is that i just got so BORED. like it was interesting for the first couple chapters then you get to where he moves to minnesota and all he talks about is how it’s cold there for like 20 pages and like. i’m from minnesota myself and yes our winters are brutal but oh my god WE GET IT. this book is 150 pages and it feels like 500. i hate not finishing books so maybe i’ll come back to it but for now i just. i can’t do it. two stars because the cover and title are so good and i like the concept but it was just done so badly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse