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Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

47 reviews

hick's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Rape, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Incest, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Confinement, Mental illness, Cursing, Dysphoria, Stalking, Body shaming, Excrement, Misogyny, and Vomit

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Grief, Classism, Animal death, Abandonment, Police brutality, and Blood

lanternhillbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Body horror, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Stalking, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Excrement and Animal death

phantompansy's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

5.0

this was dark, haunting, and entirely captivating. a beautifully written character study of a young woman at her breaking point. I wouldn't recommend it to people who want something to happen, as this is first and foremost a dissection of Eileen as a character, and plot takes a backseat which I really enjoyed. haven't stopped thinking about this since I read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Vomit, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Rape, Body shaming, Child abuse, Classism, Death of parent, Excrement, Incest, Murder, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Confinement, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, and Gun violence

malb's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Rape, Vomit, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Eating disorder, and Body shaming

Moderate: Stalking, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, and Bullying

Minor: Murder, Death of parent, Suicide, and Animal death

czoltak's review against another edition

DNF at 25%
This book is so disgusting and weird (not it a good way). On top of that there are so many problematic things I don’t even know where to begin. I read an overview of how this ends and I want absolutely no part of this any longer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Excrement, Lesbophobia, Stalking, Homophobia, Alcoholism, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual assault and Pedophilia

illgiveyouahint's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

2.0

There was one too many talks of bowel movements.
I'm sorry, but I just didn't vibe with the book. I see so many people praising it but to me it was a book where it took forever for something to start happening. The first half of the book was just so boring to me with burst of disgust whenever bowel movements were mentioned. Seriously I started to really detest the word bowels.
 I recognise that this book is just not for me and if I was not given it by my friend I would never have read it. But hey maybe a film adaptation with foxy Anne Hathaway will change my mind, who knows.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Murder, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Child abuse, Confinement, Eating disorder, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Police brutality, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

Moderate: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Death, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Terminal illness, Violence, Body shaming, Death of parent, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Rape

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Miscarriage, Medical content, and Torture

weepingstones's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse, Animal death, Murder, and Addiction

o3tri's review against another edition

dark 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

1.5

Hollow, pointless and surface level.

Would've given it 0.5 if it wasn't for the last few pages

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Incest, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Vomit, Pedophilia, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Fatphobia, Racism, Animal death, and Classism

catfan84's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

5.0

This is my favorite book of all time. It’s genuinely so well written and I love it so much I 100% reccomend it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Addiction, Alcohol, Mental illness, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Self harm, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Rape, Violence, Child abuse, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death of parent, Animal death, and Medical content

lilacwhisker's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

Eileen is probably in last place out of the other books by Moshfegh that I’ve read. This is not to say that is was terrible, but not my favorite (which is Death In Her Hands omg loved that). It’s just one of those books where very little happens and the back of the book is kind of misleading. The main problem is really that the twist happens much later in the story than you’d think, and you end up just watching Eileen mope forever. While I was expecting a slow book, I did not expect it to be this slow. It feels like they spend 20 pages talking about the snow and nothing else at some parts. I will say that the crime was interesting and morbid and all that, but it happens in like the last 40 pages of the book!!! I did enjoy reading about Eileen being starstruck by Rebecca (they should have kissed tbh)

and Rebecca’s character cracking at the end when Eileen sort of becomes the cool one. Guess the lesson is you can only be cool when threatening and killing someone??

Anyways, fine read, and I liked her shoplifting + the little fleabag moment at the end with the deer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcoholism, Kidnapping, Addiction, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Stalking, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Animal death, Gun violence, Blood, Death, and Terminal illness

Minor: Incest and Abortion