Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Mein Jahr der Ruhe und Entspannung by Ottessa Moshfegh

516 reviews

17nhammad'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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic friendship

Minor: Abortion

vaaaleriechen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

Truly a fever dream, the rawest form for untrustworthy narrator. Wtf??

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

chessmart's review against another edition

dark funny reflective 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

4.0

For female readers of American Psycho

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual content

oliviacharlene'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: Addiction, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Abortion, and Toxic friendship

crystalsbookshelf'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

2.5

this book could have been good if it didn’t feel incredibly racist (even though it’s set in 2000-2001) at times idk

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Content Warnings

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

brittneypadilla's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

Sharp, witty, modern feminist book I needed to read and have a good laugh with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

jukebugging's review against another edition

sad fast-paced

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

3.5

 it felt crass just for the sake of it 70% of the time and only crass for a reason the rest of the 30%. the only time the vulgarity didn’t feel like shock value and actually felt like it had a meaningful purpose was the scene with the dog pissing on the ice. it felt like a prime representation of life’s “silliness” that made the main character so miserable.

i felt for the protagonist for the majority of the book (beginning and middle mainly) despite how bad of a person she was, but the ending made me actually hate her because imo it made it clear that she didn’t “heal” from the morbidities of the world at all, but rather she finally got to a place where she truly achieved being above it all.

a woman (possibly her old friend) plunged to her death, and the main character described her as beautiful and was in awe of seeing her be beautiful as she plummeted, in a way that felt like “damn. that could’ve been me but i’m not shallow and worldly anymore because i listen to the radio in the park while i feed the squirrels. this possible reva really should get her shit together like me, and maybe she wouldn’t have died in 9/11.”

maybe the main character having no real redemption was the whole point and was proof that she was really a lost cause, and that this “enlightenment” she experienced was only temporary. but if so, that just makes this book so unbelievably bleak, if all she is is a representation of how awful and inescapable american consumer culture is or whatever. like we all already know that

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

pretzelocity's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.25

A weird read but some parts of it were quite interesting. It read as if one was in a fever dream, which I guess was the point. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content

amyy9's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Death of parent

aaannina's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Abortion