Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

120 reviews

nialiversuch's review against another edition

challenging dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Infidelity, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Death, Alcoholism, Self harm, Addiction, Confinement, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexual content, Cursing, Cancer, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Vomit, and Animal death

Minor: Rape, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

jasminn_perez's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

i kind of relate to unnamed narrator in the way that i also want to sleep all the time. she kinda camp ngl. i get that the whole point was that she was insufferable bc of her privilege but she was hella annoying sometimes. still a baddie tho. ending felt a little forced idk. reva was so annoying but their friendship was so interesting to me like. they loved eachother ?? i felt kinda bored in the middle this shit took so long to get through. i liked her revaluations at the end it was probably the best part. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, Medical content, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Minor: Abortion and Confinement

eurydice_books_09's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I actually really liked this book a lot! I found it entertaining and I liked the ending. I did find myself reading this book slower and not having the motivation to read it but all in all it was good! Definitely recommend, it kinda reminded me of the way American Psycho is wrote and it has a similar vibe just get rid of the male MC and the murder. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Addiction, Drug use, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Abortion

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Classism, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Bullying, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Abandonment, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Racism, Animal cruelty, Grief, and Infidelity

Minor: Pregnancy, Antisemitism, Abortion, and Animal death

aliciamenday's review against another edition

dark funny reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

3.75

if 2014 tumblr was a book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Medical content, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug use, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Suicide, Body shaming, Excrement, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Minor: Ableism and Pregnancy

dparker1231's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Medical content

Moderate: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

clarmentine's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Sexual harassment, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Abortion, Alcoholism, and Suicide

bloohoney's review against another edition

dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

She is an asshole that you feel relatable to, well...for me she is, let's be honest, the idea of sleeping for a year on not worrying sounds amazing
Then we have Reva, that you also can feel relatable to, once again, for me, and you get hurt by her story and hate how badly the main character speaks of her

Over all, i loved the book, even tho I despise her. I gave it a .5 because the ending wasn't what I was hoping for or expecting,

like the whole book deals with heavy subjects in a detached way but in the end it's like "wow, life is amazing, yeah, after a whole year drugged up i didn't develops an addiction even tho I threatened my best friend tho kill her bc she cares about me and took my pills away once....at least I think she did, i don't know, maybe i willingly gave them to her while I was out of it, hehe. So yeah, oh look the people in the park are so happy, I'm also happy, i magically have my shit together".......like wtf

so yeah, that's it, highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Vomit, and War

tabear's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Body horror, Death of parent, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual content, and Vomit

Moderate: Abortion

habertoes's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship

Gross medical negligence by a mental health professional.