A review by 333jamie
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

dark funny sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Significantly better than the movie. Eileen is naïve, self aware to a detriment, sexually repressed, neglected, etc. but so unlikeable in the movie. I'm glad I read the book and learned more about her mind and experiences. This poor girl. She's twenty four but she's just a kid. Wow.

Also Rebecca!!! The way she was written! She was really remarkably beautiful, so beautiful I had to avert my eyes. / Rebecca was very intimidating to me. / She was so pretty, a miraculous sight in such an ugly place, it surprised me that others weren't pointing and staring. Every passage about her helped me understand Eileen so much more. Wow. Also what a coward. Idc!
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