Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Kleopatra i Frankenstein by Teresa Komłosz, Coco Mellors

408 reviews

itsjadenbaby's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

I wish I could give this book 10 stars. My best read this year by far! The story is simply so real. The emotions expressed are raw and nearly every page moved me. Please look up trigger warnings though!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Blood, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Animal death, Drug abuse, and Misogyny

bugsybugs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

leils's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

1.25

Bad plot with some interesting parts popping up a few times. The only reason that I actually bothered to finish it was to see how the conflicts were resolved, and ... safe to say I was disappointed lol. If the author has focused on just Cleo, Frank, Eleanor and Anders the book would have been more solid, but instead 30% of it was dedicated to side characters. The story of the side characters really didn't add to the main storyline, so .. could have easily been chopped and nothing would be missing.

The author does have a way of digesting hard themes with her easily flowing writing style, which made this book actually readable.

Wouldn't recommend this to anyone, but I am going to see what the author comes up with next 🪩⚡🤍

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Alcohol

georgiacatt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This book felt like a complete journey and I really enjoyed reading it. It follows several characters as well as the main two but in a way that the story links all together.  The girl in the shop said to me it was like what normal people tried to do and i couldn’t agree more. The characters were flawed and real, written in such detail I have honestly never read before. You feel personally connected in some way with every single one and although there are many perspectives, the story is still cohesive. It is a beautiful story and fantastically written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Self harm, and Suicide

leannajade's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Animal death

dakotahreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Self harm

Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Dementia, and Death of parent

helloodrea's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

mollys_books's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

tarnya_smith's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective 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

5.0

This book is the perfect book for me and I loved it. 

We follow Cleo and Frank who meet and quickly marry. He's much older, successful and an alcoholic and Cleo is a young English artist who is seduced by his charm. We follow their relationship, their friends, family and life as it changes. 

This was beautifully written with so many tender moments. I listened to the audiobook and immediately bought the physical copy after so I can sit and go through tabbing all the moments I want to remember. 

As a modern romance story with some very dark themes, this is still easy listening, fun in parts and honestly raw in others. It's been compared to Sally Rooney and I agree but would say this felt well rounded and darker, like the 18 rated version of Conversation with Friends. 

An author to keep an eye on in the future for me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

luccamaria'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

4.25

"when the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."

!! spoilers:
cleo and frank needed to go through everything there was to go through to realize that soulmates aren't always lovers. they weren't meant to be together, yet they were still meant to be in each other's lives. when their darkest parts met, they did end up creating light, just not in the way they thought they would.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Self harm, and Death of parent