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Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

33 reviews

desireewoodwhite's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Eating disorder, Sexism, and Death of parent

xbernadette's review

dark funny 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: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Abandonment, and Classism

keesreads's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Deportation

josxphinchen's review against another edition

challenging reflective tense 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? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

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

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

Minor: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Sexual assault

katharinastb's review against another edition

dark funny inspiring reflective sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death

hannalizzy'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

5.0

If the song “I’m wearing his boxers/I cry in his bathroom, he turns off the big light” song “Complex” by Katie Gregson-MacLeod from tiktok was a book, this would be it. Or “You’re On Your Own, Kid” by Taylor Swift from Midnights. Or “Moon Song” by Phoebe Bridgers. Take your pick. If any of those songs break you, this book will finish the job 😭❤️‍🩹

Cleopatra and Frankenstein is a literary fiction masterpiece and in-depth character study. It’s the type of book that readers need to put some work into — you learn about the characters passively, by connecting the dots between their dialogue and their actions/behaviors. It’s a book worth annotating because so much is said between the lines. 

Throughout the book you go from loving Cleo and Frank to hating them both, individually and as a couple. They’re messy, flawed, toxic people who bring out the worst in each other, and yet: “when the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light.” 

It’s as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. It’s raw, it’s messy, it’s human. 5/5 stars⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Definitely adult content w/ triggering subjects. Check for content warnings ❤️‍🩹

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Death of parent

ynotlime's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic friendship

theminimalistbookclub'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

5.0

oh wow. i can relate. this book is about how fucking sad love can be. this book is about two people loving eatch other, but looosing themselves because they are not meant for each other. because love is not enough. because love can be toxic. because sometimes you are better off with someone else, even though you truely love the other person. 

this book is about s*x. s*x and s*x talks. maybe because people of that age express love through physical intimacy, as well as compensate for loneliness through it?

this book felt like beautiful world, where are you. 

i respect this book for including gay sex (yup, very detailled) and a person struggling with gender identity. and for writting about sexual assults by women (just one sentence but still i noticed it).

i underlined almost every freaking sentence of this book. because i can relate. because i can feel with the characters. but it didn't hit an emotional spot. i wish it did. in the middle of the book it almost put me in a reading slump tbh. i even had to listen to the audiobook while reading it, to make any progress. at some point i was like waiting for the book to get interesting.

it did get better. the second half was better (as soon as eleanor appears) and the ending is so sad (and happy and hopeful at the same time).

my favorite character is eleanor (because i always feel like the one unhappy in love, the one overseen, the one having a crush but never does anything to be with that person because i have a low self-esteem) and cleo (because she is kind of the opposite, because she does end up with the person she loves but it didn't work out, because she experiences a toxic relationship, because she struggles with herself and the world even tho everyone looks up to her, because she does make progress, because she starts her journey to find herself and what makes her happy).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

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

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

Minor: Emotional abuse and Vomit