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A review by caitlin_89
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
2.0
What in the actual ever loving heck. 2 stars. I'm giving it stars because... I didn't want to stop reading it. I had to know what would happen, and that's a powerful skill for an author to wield. And 2 because 1 is reserved for books i loathed, and I was too intrigued to loathe this.
But dear god I hated this character. What a shitty person. And what a premise, that a year of drug induced sleep could cleanse someone's mind and leave them with their nonsense resolved and give them a fresh attitude and perspective.
I don't even know what to say. It was incredibly dark and macabre, and, I'm sure some would say darkly and drily funny, but it lacked humor for me, just kept me hanging in there with raw intrigue/curiosity. It was gross. And boring. And kind of pointess because even though the character "changed" it was a magical nonsense change that felt like it meant absolutely nothing, making this book a morbid, bizarre, and unsympathetic journey through a rich, beautiful woman's depression. (Every time she looks at her starving body in the mirror, she has to admit: I've still got it. *eyeroll*)
Can't say I'd recommend it. At all. To anyone. So... yeah. IDK.
But dear god I hated this character. What a shitty person. And what a premise, that a year of drug induced sleep could cleanse someone's mind and leave them with their nonsense resolved and give them a fresh attitude and perspective.
I don't even know what to say. It was incredibly dark and macabre, and, I'm sure some would say darkly and drily funny, but it lacked humor for me, just kept me hanging in there with raw intrigue/curiosity. It was gross. And boring. And kind of pointess because even though the character "changed" it was a magical nonsense change that felt like it meant absolutely nothing, making this book a morbid, bizarre, and unsympathetic journey through a rich, beautiful woman's depression. (Every time she looks at her starving body in the mirror, she has to admit: I've still got it. *eyeroll*)
Can't say I'd recommend it. At all. To anyone. So... yeah. IDK.