Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

46 reviews

charnyreads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

leapyear_reader's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Excrement, Sexual content, and Vomit

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Violence, Abortion, Alcohol, and Bullying

Minor: Classism, Racism, Rape, and Adult/minor relationship

swaggy_turtle'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

i relate to the main character too much honestly I think thats why I hated her so much

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Eating disorder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Death of parent

marianneiriss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

bizarre in every way but i kind of loved it all the same

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Drug use, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, Cursing, Grief, Classism, Abortion, Emotional abuse, and Pregnancy

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, and Racism

freyanjani's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-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

4.5

people either hate or love this book and i think i merely float in the space between; the place where i understood it (her) completely. i read this in the perfect state of mind, as in im exactly in the place she’s in. it’s a gory depiction of femininity and a beautiful description of aloof insanity. proceed with caution if you want to delve into this story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Suicide, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Ableism, Fatphobia, Abortion, Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, and Body shaming

kiana_hi'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? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Misogyny, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Pedophilia

jessicaludden's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective 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

1.0

“There she is, a human being, diving into the unknown, and she is wide awake.”

So, I hated this. The only reason I didn’t DNF is because my friends were reading it with me, but trust me I really wanted to. And I never DNF a book. I understand exactly what the author was trying to do with this book. I get it. I just think it was executed poorly and I didn’t like it. The character is unlikeable on purpose, but not even in an entertaining way. If you’re gonna make your protagonist unlikeable, it has to mean something. Nothing happened in this book. It was super repetitive and gave so many unnecessary details that I almost fell asleep many times while reading. Maybe it gave an accurate representation of the monotony of depression? But was that enough to interest me? Nope. The sarcasm and humor in this book was funny at times, but most of the time it really really wasn’t. It felt like when someone says they have dark humor, but really they just say a bunch of offensive things for the sake of shock value. Nothing about the plot (what little there was of it) was shocking. Some of the “jokes” were shocking, but they were ultimately just unfunny. They weren’t even funny in an ironic way. The ending was very rushed disappointing. I didn’t care about a single thing in the book and I’m glad it’s over. 

“Favorite” Quotes:

“I wanted to hold on to the house the way you’d hold on to a love letter. It was proof that I had not always been completely alone in this world.”

“Die young and leave a beautiful corpse.”

“She wasn’t resting. She was not in a state of peace. She was in no state, not being. The peace to be had, I thought, watching them pull the sheet over her head, was mine.”

“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.”

“I was the vacant, repressed depressive, and she was the obsessive blabbermouth, always knocking on my door, asking random questions, looking for any excuse to talk.”

“And that was exactly what I wanted—my emotions passing like headlights that shine softly through a window, sweep last me, illuminate something vaguely familiar, then fade and leave me in the dark again.”

“My blind eye was the one real comfort I felt I could give her.”

“‘You’ve got friends, you’re alright, no matter what.’”

“‘Sometimes friends are better than family, because you can say anything. Nobody gets mad. It’s a different kind of love.’”

“…there was stability in living in the past.”

“What would come later would be only sort remembrances of the thing called love she used to give me.”

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Grief, Mental illness, Homophobia, Racism, Toxic relationship, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

softerspot's review against another edition

dark reflective sad 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

I felt the protagonists were, while not likable, loveable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, and Death

Minor: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual content, Vomit, Confinement, and Medical content

beckybb0's review against another edition

dark funny slow-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

At the time I read this, I strongly needed a distraction to get a break from a rather hard book. A great distraction it is! I've decided that I love Otessa Moshfegh's writing from Eileen and this. 

Her characters are the only ones that I can tolerate in a 300-ish pages read. They're vapid, annoying, selfish, gross and many other humanistic characters that I've never seen showed much in books I read before. That's why I treasure these writings so much.

I must agree that the ending is a bit sudden. I expect more but I want it to end too so I guess, in the end, I don't really mind how it ends. All in all, fun and very memorable read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Suicide, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Vomit

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Sexual assault and War

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