Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Cleopatra und Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

38 reviews

kayolay's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Addiction

Moderate: Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Self harm, Infidelity, Abandonment, Mental illness, Death of parent, Death, Animal death, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Fatphobia, Drug use, Drug abuse, Body shaming, Alcoholism, and Addiction

annakillilea's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Eating disorder and Fatphobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

piaschj's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, and Cursing

Moderate: Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Drug use, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Racism, and Rape

anjelica's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

1.5

Wanted to give this a 1 star but added a little bit extra because there are some nice lines here and there. The titular characters were not nuanced, complex, or interesting enough to carry me through this character-driven book. The side characters were tokenized and stereotyped, and a racial slur for Romani people is used. There are mentions of serious topics, such as addiction and depression, but these were not explored deeply enough to garner meaningful commentary. Because of this, their traumas just felt romanticized/sensationalized for shock value.  Overall, this did not work for me personally but I do understand why some people love it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Moderate: Fatphobia, Death of parent, Animal death, Sexual harassment, and Transphobia

marjoleinvanderspoel's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

1.0

Boy oh boy. Is two stars too generous? (Edit: yes it is and I'm changing it to 1,5 which still feels too generous...) This was in turn exciting to read, because the author is actually pretty good, and also excruciating to read because the characters were unbelievably self-absorbed, annoying and fake. The only character I kind of liked was Zoe, but she got like no time at all in the book. Why even include her if she wasn't important/going to get a good story arc? Well, it's for "diversity" of course. Tell me, why were all side characters part of a minority when the main characters were (mostly) straight and white??? It's just comes off as cheap, I'm sorry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Misogyny, Animal death, Fatphobia, Sexism, and Infidelity

Minor: Emotional abuse and Vomit

esme_may's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

I was worried at first that I wasn't going to like this as much as I expected but as I kept reading it really grew on me. I didn't like all the characters but was able to root for them because they felt so human

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Grief

laurenwh21's review against another edition

emotional funny sad

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Fatphobia, Suicide, and Transphobia

rosemaryreader's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? No

1.0

Even 1 1/2 years later I still hate this fucking book, lmao.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Self harm, Transphobia, Drug abuse, Animal death, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, and Death of parent