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.