Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

54 reviews

rugrat306's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

Feels like a while since I finished a book, but feeling in less of a reading slump which is good. This book was interesting and quirky! It wasn’t what I thought it would be but at the same time I enjoyed reading it. In my head when reading the blurb, this book wasn’t set in the 21st century/ early noughties, more like the in the 60’s or 70’s. So that was my first surprise. Then you go on this tumultuous journey with Cleo and Frank and it touches on some really hard hitting subjects. It also doesn’t shy away from certain words or vocab, or even describing things in detail. It can see why it’s popular. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail

michaelamatthew's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Animal death, Self harm, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

skyfluff8's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Blood, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Outing, Self harm, Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, and Drug abuse

grunbean's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-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

A good read, I enjoyed this. I can’t say I always felt the parts made sense, and the phrasing is awkward in places. But that is part of a debut novel! 

If you like sad romances, this will be a book you enjoy. The characters are interesting, and keep you invested in the story and where it’s going.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Animal death, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Infidelity, Terminal illness, and Toxic friendship

e_m_f_reads's review against another edition

This book made me physically ill. Like I’m not even saying that I thought I might throw up. There is a scene in this book that is absolutely haunting and imo completely unnecessary I read the scene this morning and cannot stop thinking about it and feelings sick its actually harrowing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

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

adrienne_rennie's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• 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, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Drug use, Dementia, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Self harm, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Dementia, Grief, Dysphoria, and Sexual content

redflyingbook's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad tense

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

4.75

okay wow, what a stunning book! Another one that is absolutely worth the hype, in my opinion. this is a tale about friendship, love, addiction, being young and lost or  not so young and still on quite the rocky road.

the prose is stunning and also so witty , i genuinely loved the sense of humor which is quite rare for me to truly come across.

what fascinated me the most though: the author genuinely has a GIFT for writing characters, each and every single one of them was incredibly nuanced, unique and so very *human*. you feel like you have or could have maybe met them along your own way navigating your 20s, they are all in super different stages and living situations, so it is a very diverse set of people too, although without having this feeling forced or unnatural in any way ! 
the only thing to criticize to me is what unfortunately also stems from having quite the large set of wonderful & loveable characters, is that i felt i saw too little of some of them, i get that the focus was on frank & cleo but i easily could've read on about all of them haha. also

quentin's and anders's ending did not feel full or satisfying at all ...

still, the book is probably a new favorite now!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

minxtte's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Pregnancy

emziesreads's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-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

3.0

How many times can a book try to shock you by mentioning masturbation? This book falls into the messy woman trope - you've read one, you've read them all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship