Reviews tagging 'Death'

Cleopatra und Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

71 reviews

risemini's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Animal death, Addiction, Medical content, Infidelity, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Gore, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, and Homophobia

shampainprblmz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Animal death, Blood, Death, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

yourariesbby's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Alcohol, Misogyny, Self harm, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Cursing

rmakenzie's review against another edition

medium-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

2.0

I genuinely can’t tell if I enjoyed this book, but I’m leaning towards no. It randomly had really beautiful prose at times, but the rest of the time I was gritting my teeth and forcing myself to finish it. It’s almost like it was written like a movie. Too fast. Too much jumping through time. This book has almost no plot, so it should be character driven, but I felt like most of the characters were so….hollow. When you finally learned something about a character, or there was a breakthrough, the chapter would end, two months would pass, and suddenly you’re reading from someone else’s point of view. 

I wish this book gave us more of Zoe. She was a funny, insufferable, not entirely likable character.

 I hated the way Cleo was described throughout this book. We GET IT. She’s young! Blonde! Small! English! Angelic! Intense! If I have to read one more sentence about how innocent and cherubic and childlike she looks I’ll scream. 

I liked Eleanor alot. She was clever and raw. When the book was in Eleanor’s point of view I actually enjoyed the prose.

In summation, good for them I guess. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

teigancollins's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Vomit, Death, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

angelaaaa's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, Transphobia, Infidelity, Death, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Grief, Dysphoria, Death of parent, Violence, Fatphobia, Blood, Mental illness, and Homophobia

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicide, and Fire/Fire injury

clarathromycin's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-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

2.0

Toxic characters who are miserable in NYC.  Join the club.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Infidelity, Death, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Alcoholism, Blood, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, and Self harm

peachyprarthna's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

this is the book of 2022. i loved it. devoured it in two days, and i'm already rereading it. i absolutely love Cleo, every time a character describes her, it's like hearing about a long lost friend. Frank is such a lovely man, even with parts that were difficult to deal with, he has been the most consistent and considerate character throughout -- which is saying something since he works in advertising where everyone is pretty fake. Eleanor was such a complex character. Her chapters were so interesting, I love that we can never tell what her next move will be. Zoe is my perfect angel. I didn't particularly enjoy Quentin, Anders, or the characters adjacent to them like Alex, or Anders' son; but I still appreciate knowing them. Santiago is especially precious to me, I wish we spent more time with him. Every character is so deeply flawed, and the book carries a tone of melancholy through out. I love, cherish, adore this novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Animal death, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Self harm, Death, Death of parent, and Eating disorder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Racism

rubycs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It’s an interesting book, with each chapter a month or months in the characters lives. You do not always know which characters pov the chapter will be until about 2 pages in to each chapter. I like that you get to know a wide range of people in frank and Cleo’s lives

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Death, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Moderate: Lesbophobia

amberinbookland's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Suicide, and Death