Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Il mio anno di riposo e oblio by Ottessa Moshfegh, Gioia Guerzoni

109 reviews

kia_y_k's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective relaxing sad slow-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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Ableism, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Classism, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic relationship

Minor: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Grief, and Mental illness

reneeandreea's review against another edition

dark slow-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

2.75

Honestly, I don’t get the hype. The best parts were the

“Infermiterol” experiment and the visit to Reva’s family home.

This was fully sitting at 3 stars until the very end. I think Moshfegh ruined it all in the last page. Nothing negative to be said for the quality of writing. This was just boring.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cancer, Vomit, Blood, Death of parent, Infidelity, Death, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Excrement, Chronic illness, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Abortion

disasterdump's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Drug use, Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Alcohol, Mental illness, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Cursing, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Abortion, Death of parent, Excrement, Pregnancy, Vomit, Antisemitism, Grief, and Medical content

cady_sass's review against another edition

challenging dark funny hopeful reflective 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

5.0

I understand that loving this book is a huge red flag. What can I say, unhinged, mentally unwell women resonate. Depressed woman hates everyone, doesn’t want to leave her apartment, and tries to medicate herself into sleeping as much as she can for a year? Wait, was this book written about me? Just kidding. Kinda. 
This is definitely, without a doubt, a love it or hate it moment. I can’t imagine feeling indifferent towards this.

The only thing that I do hate is the cover. It’s horrible, and for no reason because the main character is blonde. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Chronic illness, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Cancer, Dysphoria, Excrement, Grief, Pregnancy, Suicide, Body shaming, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Self harm

annablume's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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

weird book, highly unlikeable protagonist, definitly intended to be read as a commentary on privilege as well as depression, lovelessness, tastefullness idk
i enjoyed this
reminded me of bad news and never mind by edward st. aubyn (i read them at 16, so they're not super fresh in my memory)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Vomit, Xenophobia, Eating disorder, Grief, Death, Confinement, Addiction, Body shaming, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexism, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Classism, and Pregnancy

ddreid33's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Self harm, Sexual content, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug use, Drug abuse, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Fatphobia and Infidelity

whatannikareads's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective relaxing 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? It's complicated

3.0

i thought it was just ok? i get what it was trying to do and i didn't think it was bad necessarily. i just didn't get that much out of it. the main character was meant to be unlikable and definitely succeeded. i understand the sentiment behind resting for a year; it could potentially be triggering for people struggling with addiction. also, the ending felt rushed in my opinion and kinda came out of left field (i anticipated it but when it happened it felt anticlimactic). so it's a very neutral territory book for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Vomit, Abandonment, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Infidelity

sammietee's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Addiction, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Sexual content

cimmalex's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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

The worst book I’ve read in my adult life. It is shocking to me how this book is raved about, and how horrible it ended up being. My favorite part was the ending, but not because the book was over. The ending was also the saddest part of the entire book. I would’ve opted to not finish it, but I felt like I had to. I’m sorry I wasted the time. The audiobook narrator was insufferable too

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Addiction, Infidelity, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Ableism, Alcoholism, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Death, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder

amtaylor's review against another edition

dark reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Drug use, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Infidelity, Alcohol, Sexual content, and Vomit

Minor: Toxic friendship