Reviews - My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel

Ottessa Moshfegh

3.64 AVERAGE

ellagammill's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

hayleo2311's review against another edition

2.5

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

atom12's review against another edition

4.5

dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

guaureyna's review against another edition

4.0

She was tired, sad, lost the will to live even before she acknowledged it herself. Her own personal pain made her not want to exist which is okay. That’s what grief does. People really do die all the time. Some experience it more than others. Some on a regular day and some on big catastrophes. But that’s really what we all face and have to accept eventually: death.

I really enjoyed her pessimism and hyper fixations to make life a little more bearable, but you just gotta face it. That’s an internal decision. It was nice to see her regain personal agency at the end—even if 9/11 had to be the final push.