Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

285 reviews

gracebuffin's review against another edition

5.0

challenging hopeful lighthearted 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

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i wanted to be petty and not give this 5 stars because the ending made me so mad 😭 but i knew it’d end up coming back and changing it. the book was just too good 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief

Minor: Dementia

rcornatzer225's review

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Too much explicit sexual content. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol

lizby's review

2.0

dark 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

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this book took me forever to read and by the 2 nd half i plowed through mostly bc i wanted it to be over. idk why i just couldn’t connect with any of the characters and just wanted to know the ending. unsatisfying

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content

oceanwriter's review against another edition

1.0

dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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If I hadn't had this on my 'must-read in 2025' list that was glued into my reading journal, this would have been a DNF. I regret my compulsion to be a completionist. I feel ashamed for having even skimmed it; it was such an affront to my usual reading taste and content preference. I found some parts to be gratuitously graphic, empty, offensive, and even bigoted. I'm usually all for a darker premise with flawed characters, but these characters felt hollow with no redeeming qualities. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Antisemitism, Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide

izzy_reads_books's review

4.5

dark funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Sexual content

magz96's review

4.0

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Very character-driven. Not a big plot which is fine with me. I liked the different POVs of the side characters— gave them more depth. Kind of wanted the book to be longer so I could continue to hear the inner monologue of characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt

kjvita's review

4.0

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

mrsv3915's review against another edition

4.5

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Mental illness, Alcohol

Minor: Suicide

pk1's review against another edition

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There's nothing inherently *bad* per se about this novel. I just don't care about anything that is going on. I picked this up to help combat a reading slump, but I've lost interest already and want to focus on other books. I will admit this novel is out of my comfort zone. It's a pretentious contemporary novel exploring messy relationships, which is fine, just not something I usually enjoy. It feels like it's taking me forever to get through the chapters. How in the world, and why, is this novel 30 pages shy of 400 pages? Is it that serious? I can't imagine following these characters and their relationships for that long. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexual content

emmabrwn's review

4.0

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Abandonment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Death of parent