Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

727 reviews

read_between_the_wines's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing sad 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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Dementia, Death of parent

ilolijiniie's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse

crawforl's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny reflective sad 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

shealen's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional reflective 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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This really challenged me emotionally and I don’t even have related experience to what the characters were going through other than mental health struggles, yet I still felt so connected and entwined with them and all of their flaws. They are not easy characters to love, and that was the point, I believe. The two characters I found I liked the most only had 1 chapter and 2 chapters accordingly. Very powerful writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Death of parent

lngoldstein's review against another edition

4.25

dark sad 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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

batforanna's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny 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, Alcohol

Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship

dominica04's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Totálně devastatujíicí. Byly ve mne snad všechny emoce, od smutku, touhy, po radost, naději. Vnímala jsem, že hodně straním Clee, ať udelala cokoliv, vždy jsem si to zvládla nějak odůvodnit, ospravedlnit. Proste jsem za ni v duchu bojovala. Zároveň jsem ale byla neustále hrozně naštvaná na Franka a neskutečně mě taky rozcilovala Eleanor, i když vím, že to měla těžké. To vše, co se ji dělo a její životní příběh…proste asi jako každý z nás. Každý má nějaký příběh a není to o tom, porovnávat, kdo je na tom hůř a soutěžit a “horší rozdané karty”, ale možná si uvědomit, že to nemám sama za potřebí a můžu být sama sobě oporou a nemusím se snažit o uznání ostatních. Jenže tam ještě mentálně nejsem…je to jako bych to věděla, ze to chci, že mě to snad jednou čeká, ale proste mi není dovolenou do této úrovně ještě vstoupit. Jako bych si sama ještě musela něco odžít, dovolit, opustit. 
Chtěla bych si to přečíst za 20 let. A zajímalo by mě, jestli by se mé vnímání a to s kým se identifikuji v příběhu, změnilo, a jak případně. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism

alayarocco's review against another edition

2.25

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Nothing much of substance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Terminal illness, Medical content, Death of parent

efnelson12's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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: Drug abuse, Sexual violence

Moderate: Suicide, Toxic friendship

Moving, sometimes uncomfortable, often hedonistic. You love these characters despite their flaws. However I thought it was a tad too long.

lindseybkoehler's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad 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: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Forced institutionalization