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A review by rachaelm13
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
I don’t even know what to rate this.
**just did trigger warnings and this book has almost all of them**
First things first if you are depressed or struggling mentally DO NOT read this.
It felt like it was supposed to be depression porn.
For some reason I couldn’t stop reading it? Like everything was just going to horribly for this character I wanted to see the drama? Root for her? Hope things got better? I don’t know.
There was some things in this book that seemed from now and not when this book was set, like pop culture things I guess. And the ending of the year seemed very unrealistic just like a switch flipped. I don’t know.
This was like a fever dream. I put me in a reading slump and also made me kinda depressed/existential. I’ve heard that its supposed to be like what new york was like pre 9/11 but it’s focused on basically one character and 9/11 doesn’t come up until the last like 2 chapters.
Maybe because I don’t remember 9/11 I don’t understand. But I just don’t get how this severely struggling person is supposed to represent new york. I don’t know. I also didn’t really read the back of the book before starting it I just kinda went in because people recommended it, sorta how I did with normal people, LOL and I hated that book too
**just did trigger warnings and this book has almost all of them**
First things first if you are depressed or struggling mentally DO NOT read this.
It felt like it was supposed to be depression porn.
For some reason I couldn’t stop reading it? Like everything was just going to horribly for this character I wanted to see the drama? Root for her? Hope things got better? I don’t know.
There was some things in this book that seemed from now and not when this book was set, like pop culture things I guess. And the ending of the year seemed very unrealistic just like a switch flipped. I don’t know.
This was like a fever dream. I put me in a reading slump and also made me kinda depressed/existential. I’ve heard that its supposed to be like what new york was like pre 9/11 but it’s focused on basically one character and 9/11 doesn’t come up until the last like 2 chapters.
Maybe because I don’t remember 9/11 I don’t understand. But I just don’t get how this severely struggling person is supposed to represent new york. I don’t know. I also didn’t really read the back of the book before starting it I just kinda went in because people recommended it, sorta how I did with normal people, LOL and I hated that book too
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol