🥒 reviewed My year of rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
DEFINITELY Overhyped
3 stars
Listen. I like it. It's weird, it's melancholy, it's a slow-paced drama about an unlikable, fairly privileged character coping with a mental-health crisis in the weirdest way possible so of course I finished it. But do I love it? No. No I do not.
It's a story that lacked any teeth: the character is (predictably considering the premise) extremely passive and that lends itself to the vague, moody, emptiness of the plot that concludes in a rather unsatisfying anti-climax.