Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

281 reviews

ahendricks040's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense 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

5.0

a favorite :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent

faerieevee's review against another edition

dark 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: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Antisemitism, and Classism

Minor: Abortion

jolikesbooks's review

challenging dark 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

Empty but entertaining.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual assault

xoxo111venus's review

dark funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Ableism, Death, and Death of parent

Justice Reva my girl ain’t done nothing wrong

kkpines's review

dark funny fast-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

4.25

This is the most airtime Whoopi Goldberg has ever received.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual assault, Vomit, Grief, and Abortion

natlwlyn's review against another edition

dark informative tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

i did not expect myself to like this book. after all, this book is rated as a 3 star average. the story is narrated by an unreliable narrator that came off as a detached privileged white woman. the character is meant to be written to be unlikable. to put it simply, she wants to sleep for a long period of time to be born as a new person. the story narrates her thoughts; her roller coaster of emotions, her way of handling grief, her past, her thoughts, her relationships. this book might not be everyone's cup of tea and i can see why some people rated the book poorly. but to me, personally, this book is worth the read because the narrations are really detailed, making you taste the character's experience 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Ableism, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Abortion

mithalogy's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Rape, Sexual assault, and Vomit

juulstizya'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

1.5

reva deserved better 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Vomit, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Racism, Xenophobia, Abortion, and Classism

clary0402's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Grief, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Sexual assault, Abortion, and Pregnancy

russell183's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

A funny, sad, and moving story about a profoundly damaged person. A look at a group of awful people that is both incredible empathetic and super vicious. Deeply human and laugh out loud funny with a pitch black wit. Listened to the audiobook in 3 days and just couldn’t pull myself away. 

Also shout out to Julia Whelan’s really amazing performance reading the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault and Suicide