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Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

2 reviews

loustat__'s review against another edition

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dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5


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elle_in_amsterdam's review against another edition

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

0.5

absolute shit of a novel, wouldn’t recommend to my worst enemy, no story at all, just pure gore
deranged teenage shepherd in fucked up town,
sucks on the nipples of a delusional very very old lady — who is over a century, was blind, grew up in a cave, learned to talk to birds, regained her sight, and let a teenage boy go down on her — ,kills his cousin — a bully and the son of the local lord but also not really his cousin in the end because his adoptive father is only the guy who kidnapped and raped the boy’s mother after she had tried to escape her family where she was also being raped by her own brother, hence the pregnancy, the old shepherd then tells the boy his mother died in childbirth when she had just escaped and went to a convent, that she tries to leave during a famine only for the old shepherd to find her again and rape her again—
and goes to live with the lord as a replacement child.

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