Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

334 reviews

lilmadmadz's review

dark emotional sad 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

2.5

Beautifully written quibbling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Eating disorder, Cancer, Alcohol, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Vomit, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Child abuse

Don't read if you're in a "low" head space, or questioning your existence. Not the kind of catharsis you'd need.

menagerie_of's review against another edition

dark reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Eating disorder, Vomit, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol and Abortion

effys's review

This book has definitely left me in need of something a bit lighthearted after that. 

This was a strange experience of a book, it definitely wasn't an enjoyable experience of a book but I liked reading it. The main character is hateable as all hell, she has one friend who is too nice for putting up with the MCs shit. 

My only real issue with the book was

it was so blatantly obvious that Reva was going to die in 9/11 i figured from the get go that 9/11 was going to be involved somehow because it's New York and it starts in 2000 but I feel like if we hadn't been told WHERE Reva was going to be working it could've been more impactful

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Abortion

imds's review

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Vomit, Alcohol, Death of parent, Grief, Abortion, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Terminal illness, Infidelity, and Mental illness

marmorienkeli's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

If you read a book about someone sleeping and popping pills for an entire year, very surprisingly it is not going to be interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Eating disorder

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, and Animal death

zaraha's review

dark funny lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Self harm, Death, Sexual content, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Fatphobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Genocide, Abortion, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Rape, and Violence

jessiphillips's review

dark emotional medium-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

This book could have been really good if the protagonist had actually dealt with her trauma and if there had been real consequences for her substance abuse. Instead, this books gives the dangerous idea that substance abuse can solve your problems. There are no consequences for any of her actions or incredibly selfish and cruel behavior. 

Despite that, she is incredibly relatable (a year is sleep sounds so nice) it was almost a comfort to read someone’s thoughts who had no filter. All the bad thoughts that would cause me to pause and retract, she would carry on with. Unashamedly. She makes no effort at being kind. Her depression was overwhelming and her grief all consuming and if we saw her at a different point in life, maybe she would be different. 

Had there been real consequences for her behavior and actions and had her drug abuse been addressed in any manner at the end, this would probably have been a five star read. 

Also, Reva deserved better

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, and Addiction

Moderate: Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Body shaming, Cancer, Suicide, and Vomit

chickaboogawah'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

0.25

This book was horrible. The end epiphany that I expected didn't happen. The main character was still unlikeable. It was predictable and dumb. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Vomit, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Drug use, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Cancer, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Ableism, Chronic illness, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

kirkspockreads's review

dark emotional reflective 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: Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Grief, Drug use, Fatphobia, Drug abuse, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Sexual assault, and Racism

Minor: Rape, Pregnancy, and Abortion

karalynaa's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Addiction, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Abortion, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Misogyny, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Death, and Death of parent