Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Kleopatra i Frankenstein by Teresa Komłosz, Coco Mellors

408 reviews

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

piastri's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

It’s hard to work out whether I love this book or just feel nothing about it. The characters are all deeply flawed, many unlikeable, and it’s interesting to get the insight into the side characters and read their story, while also getting their perspective of the main characters. 

there was some really beautiful prose, and the themes of mental illness, identity and unhealthy relationships on both a platonic and romantic level was lovely to read about, but i don’t think i’ve fallen in love with this book in the way that i wanted to going into it

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death

freyanjani's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-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

3.5

the reviews for this are a mess and so was it. i guess it’s trying to do the whole mediocre people in mediocre situations, human relationships type of reflective story but it just didn’t hit the way it’s supposed to. it’s too long, for one. and the narrative is all over the place, which i usually dont mind, but it just seemed erratic—maybe that’s the whole theme i dont know. lots of the characters are so stereotypical of their race/sexuality, in my opinion, and there were some parts that i think was unnecessary and even a little offensive. 

(see: sugar glider)

it got better right at the end and i finally felt the warm, emotional feeling i was supposed to get the whole book. i can appreciate this book, but i don’t love it and it’s such a shame because i REALLY wanted to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Rape, and Sexual violence

sarahbroccoli's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

servecunt_readbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

rmakenzie's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.0

I genuinely can’t tell if I enjoyed this book, but I’m leaning towards no. It randomly had really beautiful prose at times, but the rest of the time I was gritting my teeth and forcing myself to finish it. It’s almost like it was written like a movie. Too fast. Too much jumping through time. This book has almost no plot, so it should be character driven, but I felt like most of the characters were so….hollow. When you finally learned something about a character, or there was a breakthrough, the chapter would end, two months would pass, and suddenly you’re reading from someone else’s point of view. 

I wish this book gave us more of Zoe. She was a funny, insufferable, not entirely likable character.

 I hated the way Cleo was described throughout this book. We GET IT. She’s young! Blonde! Small! English! Angelic! Intense! If I have to read one more sentence about how innocent and cherubic and childlike she looks I’ll scream. 

I liked Eleanor alot. She was clever and raw. When the book was in Eleanor’s point of view I actually enjoyed the prose.

In summation, good for them I guess. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

franziw21's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Sexual content, and Alcohol

gargi_g's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

alicedawkins's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-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

3.75

A great twist on a romance novel. Explores the bitter sweetness of cheating and falling out of love. An interesting take on a side we don’t normally see.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Self harm, and Alcohol

rayinbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug use, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt