Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

59 reviews

mookisbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Grief, Addiction, Drug use, Alcoholism, Blood, Dementia, Death of parent, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

ktwoolen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

Tore me apart in the best way. I  love the reflective writing in this book and the raw depiction of human nature and relationships. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, and Death

jordkuba's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-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

4.0

Very good book, well written and nice to read. Unfortunately, it contained a number of topics that difficult for me. That somewhat diminished my enjoyment. I'm sure I could have liked it more at a different time in my life .

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Addiction, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Infidelity, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Dementia, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, and Grief

Minor: Self harm, Violence, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, and Dysphoria

garfriendofmine's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Drug use, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Dementia, Death, Mental illness, Infidelity, Animal death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Cursing, Classism, Blood, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

cleotheo's review against another edition

emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Blood, Toxic friendship, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide and Dementia

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, and Racism

sarajee's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, Drug use, Animal death, Blood, Dementia, Alcoholism, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Drug abuse

Minor: Death of parent

I can't decide how I feel about this book. I didn't find most of the characters enjoyable but it was interesting to read about them and the book mainly had a good flow going with the story. I wish there was more about Zoes story which I feel like was left in the air like an afterthought. Quentin too. I didn't enjoy the introduction of Elenor or the format of her chapters. I just couldn't bring myself to care about her at all.

rylie_o's review against another edition

emotional funny tense 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Death of parent, Addiction, Grief, Infidelity, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Self harm, Dementia, and Drug abuse

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Racism, and Animal cruelty

aleilvandrea's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Violence, Alcohol, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Blood, Death, Dementia, Drug use, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Sexual content, Body horror, Alcoholism, and Infidelity

Moderate: Classism, Gore, Abandonment, and Grief

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Transphobia, Ableism, and Antisemitism

catherinerowland'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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Dementia, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Sexual content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Rape, and Animal death

saskiasreading's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

3.25

I didn’t like how it jumped from character to character. I didn’t care about quinton or anders etc etc i wanted more of frank and cleo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Animal death, Alcoholism, Dementia, Eating disorder, Self harm, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Infidelity