Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

249 reviews

sharkbooiii766's review against another edition

2.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Incest, Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death of parent

justiceforplutoo's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Main character was insufferable. (He's just like me)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Incest, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury

Depending on which edition of the book you have, there may or may not be incest. Mary Shelley edited the 1831 edition to work around the incest, but two characters still call each other "cousin" as a friendly term. I picked "medical trama" because there wasn't a tag for "I created a monster and now I can't use the medical instruments without feeling immense guilt." I also chose "panic attacks" because I think that's what was going on with Victor for most of the book; they just didn't have that terminology in the 1800s. Period-Typical Misogyny; if you read classics often, I don't think it'll affect you much.

Towards the end of the book, Victor begins having serious suicidal thoughts, and his sickness leads to his death. At the end of the book, the creature actually does vow to kill himself with fire out of guilt of how his actions affected Victor.

teslis's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I have wanted to read this book for so so long, and I was happy to read it. But it was not my cup of tea sadly. I was confused and didn’t follow that well. It’s been allot going on so I had to read the book in two days which was bad and stressful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Mental illness, Grief

themaple_dusk's review against another edition

2.0

dark mysterious slow-paced

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death of parent

Minor: Incest, Racism

lolab24's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Abandonment

Minor: Suicide, Violence, Stalking

oceanwriter's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Reread, but also the first time reading the 1818 text. Loved it even more the second time around and it was interesting reading the first edition. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Incest, Racism

bethanwx's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A classic gothic novel about the dangers of over-reaching. Whilst I appreciate that this is a significant text, I don't warm to the writing style or characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Murder, Abandonment

Moderate: Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Colonisation

Minor: Death of parent

gracescanlon's review against another edition

4.5

dark sad tense medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment

ekgranstro's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

mangonana's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence