Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

42 reviews

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Animal death, Classism, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Excrement, and Terminal illness

Minor: Suicide attempt and Infidelity

madelonpaige's review

dark mysterious slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Abortion

framedflower's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Murder, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

libt11's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, and Ableism

honeysimple's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, and Rape

Moderate: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Body shaming, Animal death, Death, Fatphobia, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Misogyny

abmochapman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

Only Ottessa Moshfegh could make a mystery out of monotony.

Death in Her Hands follows a widowed woman who, upon finding a note about a dead body with no body in sight, becomes obsessed with a murder mystery mostly of her own creation. 

Much of the novel takes place within the Vesta’s mind. The few sentences left behind on the note take Vesta through a whirlwind of speculation. Yet, when Vesta starts to find confirmation of her guesses in the world around her, it becomes unclear whether she is only speculating or if there is really something sinister afoot in her small town.

Like most of her work, Death in Her Hands is a subversion of our expectations. It may or may not satisfy you.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Body shaming

malenkylizzard's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Body shaming

lovelylilelle's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide, Cancer, Alcohol, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Body shaming

Minor: Abortion and Adult/minor relationship

bright_eyed_and_bookish's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-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

3.0

I wasn’t particularly invested in all the details, but I understood the underlying storyline of a person spinning a story in their mind when their life is comparatively uninteresting, or not the way they hoped. It is interesting where she gets her inspiration and how that seems to manifest in her “real world”.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

ariadnacaast's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship