Dinah’s Reviews > My Year of Rest and Relaxation > Status Update

All the events in past chapters make it feel like we’re coming to a turning point in the story. A climax. I’m interested to see what happens. If Reva dies in 9/11 and that’s how this ends I’m going to rate this one star. Maybe five.

It looks like all these pills are messing with MC’s sense of self. I wonder if they play off each other. It doesn’t surprise me that Trevor’s emotional abuse played such a big role in her emotional development, especially considering her upbringing. I also got the sense that she cares more about Reva than she lets on, so I get the feeling that the train she woke up on is heading to Penn station for the funeral.

Word of the day is “banal.”

Noticed a small discrepancy in a minor detail about the MC’s past. I’m curious if this is supposed to be a subtle hint at an unreliable narrator or if it was a mistake that was overlooked during editing… I am leaning towards the latter, which does take me out of the story a little bit.

As chapter one wrapped up and chapter two unfolds (oh hello little spider), it becomes increasingly clear that our protag. is struggling with severe depression and a deep loneliness that is only amplified by her eccentrically terrible psychiatrist who prescribes her a cocktail of sleeping pills. Many parallels are being drawn between her and her mother. It seems an unloving childhood played quite the role…