Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Cleopatra und Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

57 reviews

femi_nasty_biblio's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Abandonment, Animal death, Grief, Infidelity, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Sexual content

lottselgar's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

perfect in every way. i hate them all but i love them all. i can fix cleo!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Self harm

maartabarrales's review against another edition

hopeful reflective relaxing 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Self harm, Animal death, Drug use, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, and Infidelity

Moderate: Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexism, Classism, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault, Fatphobia, and Eating disorder

reinalamala's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

My boyfriend chose, at random, a book for me to read off my tbr and I’m so glad this was the one! My only complaint is that I feel like some characters didn’t get quite the wrap up to their storylines that I wanted to see. Definitely left me wanting more! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Terminal illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Death of parent

livd1200's review against another edition

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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abandonment, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

volha's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Abandonment and Death of parent

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

lucykateburns'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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, and Homophobia

Minor: Chronic illness, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Self harm

margozaldivar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Self harm, and Suicide

Moderate: Abandonment and Adult/minor relationship

moonbeammckenna's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

Jesus fucking Christ, what a book. The plot, the characters, Cleo, Frank, Santiago, Zoe, oh my God I’m never going to get this book out of my head. Coco Mellors writes just one line of poetry after another, interspersed with tragedy and beauty and something I didn’t know how to put into words but she definitely managed to. I wish I could write a review as beautifully as the book was written but I’m not going to be able to do it justice.

The characters were all thinking the same perceptive, disheartening, honest thoughts as if they were the same person, and only their actions separated them from one another. I loved the way Mellors delved into the ugliness of human existence and didn’t try to come out with a happy ending – she left it at ugly and turned it in to something lovely and so, so sad. She writes about people in such a way that makes me yearn for more human connection and confront the biases I have about people – I achingly relate to Cleo and Frank and at the same time know that I don’t really have any idea what any of them are going through. 

I so badly wanted to hate Anders for being pretentious and creepy and Frank for falling in love with someone else and Cleo for being overbearingly feminist and a cheater and Quentin for being a prick in general, but I can’t condemn them knowing their minds and it SUCKS, but it’s something that I hope I take away from this and apply it to the real people in my life.

I am in tears and I don’t think I’m going to be able to read another book for a month, or at least until I stop feeling my heart torn in two whenever I think about it. I feel genuinely changed because of this book, and I hope it goes away soon. Five mother-freaking-stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Self harm, and Suicide attempt