Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

13 reviews

haileyeh's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Confinement, Drug abuse, Addiction, Sexual content, Eating disorder, and Drug use

Moderate: Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Gaslighting, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Cancer, Abortion, and Alcoholism

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, and Vomit

tiffyb's review against another edition

DNF’d about 60 pages in. This book is grotesque and I find myself physically pulling away from the kindle every few pages because it’s just intentionally nasty. Just got thru a passage where the main character poops on the floor of an art gallery and shoved her used TP into the mouth of a taxidermy dog. Not my cup of tea. After checking reviews, it seems that the book continues this way, so I won’t be finishing it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Excrement, Cancer, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, and Suicidal thoughts

spooderman's review against another edition

challenging dark funny 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Death, Vomit, Animal death, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Mental illness, Abandonment, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Homophobia, Misogyny, Antisemitism, Sexism, Cultural appropriation, Xenophobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: War, Racism, Cursing, Abortion, Miscarriage, Classism, Confinement, Medical trauma, Islamophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Medical content

allydoessomereading's review

challenging dark reflective sad 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

4.25

The main character is hard to like, she's rude and distant, but in many ways painfully relatable. The book looks at depression and untreated trauma in a way that is honest and cruel. It balances sympathy with disdain all at once and its a challenging subject to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Addiction, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Rape, Suicide, Self harm, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

blue_is_at_sea's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

I started reading this book because the premise sounded very, very interesting. The idea of sleeping for an entire year? Sign me right up. 
I had a bit of a problem getting into the book because I did not like the main character at all. I ended up listening to the audiobook for some portions to get through these hard parts. 
As the book went on and we learned more about her, instead of disliking her, I just felt sad about how judgmental she was, and the decisions she made. It was clear she was not facing any of her problems head on, which makes sense if she wants to avoid everything by sleeping for a year. I think this contributes to why I didn’t love the book. I just felt like we never really got to see her emotional state or get to know how she actually felt. This made me feel like it was just a series of events that were described to us, rather than it being something that we experienced along with the main character. It felt slightly surface level. I wish it went a little deeper. 
The middle of the book drags on, but it stuck with it because I knew we were moving towards a specific event and I was curious to see how it would be handled in the end. I’m kind of glad we didn’t spend too much time on it in the ending, because that would have been a distracting emotional weight that was unearned. However, I’m still disappointed that even with such a tragic end, we still don’t really get any insight into her emotional state. 
Overall, it was a fine read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Body shaming and Classism

Minor: Racism, Vomit, and Racial slurs

reverielms's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-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: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Racism, Mental illness, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Grief, Alcohol, Drug use, Toxic friendship, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Death of parent

milanaradic's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racial slurs, Sexual content, and Death of parent

lauren176's review

dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Suicide, Mental illness, War, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racial slurs, Addiction, and Eating disorder

hikaiya'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

The main character is an unlikable, racist, ableist, classist, every-ist, person.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Bullying, Classism, Ableism, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, and Mental illness

Minor: Abortion

arianne7's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective 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

4.25

i genuinely don’t know what to write for this book. i was so entertained by it even though it literally had no plot whatsoever. i have a love hate relationship with the narrator cause she was relatable at times with her obsession with whoopi goldberg and finding tiny little ways to fill her time with movies and coffee runs but so unlikeable with the way she treated reva and the people in her environment. i mean it was a perfect depiction of the headspace she was in and it was executed phenomenally. she was funny at times but i still can’t pin point why i was so entertained and made it through the end with this book. 
i think the way this book is written really elevated the experience because you are aware the narrator is conscious of her privilege and her reasoning for being in everyone’s lives was that. 
i feel like a take away i did get from this book was to find appreciation for the parts of life where i have no control over it. there’s so much going on in reality that it’s important to be aware of it and take advantage of its beauty. there’s more to life than the situations i deal with personally which i think was a good like closing statement?
i’ll give it a solid 4 stars only because i did enjoy it and there was a moral i did walk away with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death of parent, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Self harm, Eating disorder, Racial slurs, Sexual content, and Cursing

Minor: Rape, Grief, Alcohol, Cancer, and Abortion