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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
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
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-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
The characters in this book are so hugely interesting, original and compelling. I was fascinated by them, drawn in - I wanted to know them and to know what would happen to them. They are all so beautifully described, the reader has such wonderful images of them and they are smart and funny and screwed up. It was a very good book and I really enjoyed reading it. Highly recommend.
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
sad
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
"Everything she had ever wanted to hear from a man was hers from the mouth of a girl."
not a single man in this book deserves to live except maybe santiago, I liked it more when there was no man in sight.
not a single man in this book deserves to live except maybe santiago, I liked it more when there was no man in sight.
Relatable, character-driven story. Makes you care about all of the characters despite all of them being entitled and privileged. Only let down is that not all of the characters get a well-rounded ending, you have entire chapters devoted to their arcs which then peter out in a pretty lacklustre fashion later on - most characters get a good ending, however (whether its a positive end to their story or not.)
i think this book tries to be more than it is.
whilst elements are strikingly good (for example the first chapter, the way mellors writes tension, the argument scene, eleanor's chapters), this book feels like a few too many things at once.
coco mellors clearly wanted to write many different books and ended up lumping them all together into one. for a novel called cleopatra and frankestein, only about half is about those characters.
as a result, the book feels messy and convoluted and a some character journeys finish unsatisfyingly rushed or unresolved, and then feel pointless to begin with. and even though i really liked eleanor's chapters, they didn't really fit in the book, being written in first person and a completely different style (side note: this totally was the moment that mellors read conversations with friends and decided to copy half of it).
i'd highly recommend everyone to instead read sally rooney's conversations with friends, or even better, the maddie-laurence-annotated version of cleopatra and frankenstein. maddie's notes actually made the book 10x more entertaining and with them its a 5 star any day
whilst elements are strikingly good (for example the first chapter, the way mellors writes tension, the argument scene, eleanor's chapters), this book feels like a few too many things at once.
coco mellors clearly wanted to write many different books and ended up lumping them all together into one. for a novel called cleopatra and frankestein, only about half is about those characters.
as a result, the book feels messy and convoluted and a some character journeys finish unsatisfyingly rushed or unresolved, and then feel pointless to begin with. and even though i really liked eleanor's chapters, they didn't really fit in the book, being written in first person and a completely different style (side note: this totally was the moment that mellors read conversations with friends and decided to copy half of it).
i'd highly recommend everyone to instead read sally rooney's conversations with friends, or even better, the maddie-laurence-annotated version of cleopatra and frankenstein. maddie's notes actually made the book 10x more entertaining and with them its a 5 star any day
il est vrai que ça va un peu nul part, et que quelques subplots ont été abandonnés en chemin mais j’ai bien aimé les personnages avec tous les défauts. Je trouve que ça raconte bien les soucis de chacun et la fin est appréciable
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
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
I think with an objective lens this book is so beautiful and really tells a story about people’s addictions - especially addiction with factors people don’t often think about: gluttony, adoration, depression. selfishly, i had to rate it so low from how long it took me to finish from how raw it was to read. I wish there was more resolve for Cleo, especially cause i got her the most. and i know her art is the resolve, but when relating it to myself it wasn’t.