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

angelademaral's review against another edition

3.0

dark reflective 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

Very slow read. I get that it's supposed to mimic the main character's experience and I also get that she's going through a lot but I couldn't help but mostly find her ungrateful and irritating. I feel like nothing at all happened in this entire novel. It's possible that I just didn't "get" it.

balladoftessa's review against another edition

4.0

Qué viaje me ha pegado.

scoobydoovitamin's review against another edition

2.0

this was depressing. not a big fan. made me feel bad inside. and i’m freaked out that tmrw is 9/11 and that’s where the book ends. absolutely no thank you.

shamcole288's review against another edition

4.0

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh.

This book was a nice reminder that I had a soft spot for dark and wicked plots full of sardonic humor such as this one. L

Our nameless narrator decides to sleep for a year (what a dream— see what I did there? Hekhek

juleia's review against another edition

I don't know. Honestly.
Stuck somewhere between maybe I don't get the point, more probable that there is none, not in the sense that you'd usually be looking for anyway. Utterly depressing, in a bizarre and grotesque way I haven't seen before. At times moving, the general sentiment slowly unfolds over halfway through the book, leaving you with some form of understanding.
I do think it will haunt me time and again, though.
For sure like nothing else.