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rqdreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This might be then most disturbing, unhinged, disgusting book I've come across and I literally couldn't stop. It's as if the author wrote with the intention of, "how can I make the reader squirm with every page?"
Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh needs all content warning on the planet. I just put everything as graphic because really the entire thing is graphic. Like, if you can think it, it's in there. This book is NOT for the weak and I don't even know how to rate it? What to think about it? It's the most problematic, twisted, fucked up macabre shit I've ever read.
Have you seen what happens in Midnight Mass when people blindly follow the priest? Add an isolated medieval fiefdom with starving peasants who are being controlled and tortured by their lord for funsies. Moshfegh finds a way to make your senses ignite. My stomach turned frequently from the descriptions of the rot and ruin.
Every single time I thought, "there is no way it gets worse," I was wrong. I used to be a person who couldn't watch scary movies or read horror books with the lights off but lately nothing has been scaring me... but this is? Lapvona is true horror to me because it's humanity at it's absolute worst.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Excrement, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Abortion, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Child death, Death of parent, Murder, Sexism, Grief, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Torture, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Incest, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, Blood, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, and Death
celbl8o's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Murder, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Blood, Child death, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Ableism, Bullying, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence