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A review by alomie
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This book was something else, I spent the whole time feeling nostalgia for the naughties and hating all the characters in the book. However, I enjoyed my time with it, it's weird and unsettling and also like watching a car crash, like you objectively know you shouldn't be watching it but you cannot drag your eyes away.
I don't really know who I would even recommend this book to, but it's also a book I want to talk with someone about, it's strange, I also have a hangover from it.
Considering it's a short book about a woman putting herself into a medicated hibernation it was exhausting.
The main character is horrible, and no one in this book comes off great, but in spite of that, I could not stop reading.
I don't really know who I would even recommend this book to, but it's also a book I want to talk with someone about, it's strange, I also have a hangover from it.
Considering it's a short book about a woman putting herself into a medicated hibernation it was exhausting.
The main character is horrible, and no one in this book comes off great, but in spite of that, I could not stop reading.