Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

553 reviews

midnightrain_'s review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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 use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death

excritos's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 60%

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I don't care what will happen with the characters anymore. 😑

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

beetdirt's review against another edition

2.75

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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i think this was a hate-read. justice for quentin. this… felt weirdly disappointing. i liked the side characters far better than the main pair. i wish the whole thing was eleanor’s chapters. there are portions of this book that were really beautiful and heartbreaking and honest, but i kept getting lost in how unlikeable and at times abusive everyone was. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent

syvanah's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

leseratte28's review against another edition

3.75

emotional funny 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, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Suicide

Minor: Child abuse

ams5x9's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Racism, Forced institutionalization, Blood

tiredtristan's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense slow-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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4.5✨

“When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light.”

I still don’t have the proper words to review this book. The way I still think of this book daily is honestly insane.
This was something different than I usually read and I’m so glad I picked it up. 
-0.5 because:

•  the end chapter of chapter 10
  WHY IS HE m**** IN A STEAKHOUSE BATHROOM
• I don’t like Eleanor or her first person pov. 
• Why doesn’t Cleo get a happy ending :( but Frank, the guy who has more red flags than I have sticky notes, gets a happy ending?????

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting

literarylucy's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional 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

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overall i enjoyed the premise. however i felt that some of the character development felt half-finished at best. Especially pertaining to frank (by the way i hate him) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Self harm

eloiseatthelibrary's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional reflective fast-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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Chaotic is the one word if use to describe this book. The characters were intriguing and the story emotional and entertaining. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Mental illness

han_amey's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional 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 book does a brilliant job at capturing human emotions, and really shows that people really can be quite flawed. I loved how it flitted between different characters’ perspectives, even within one chapter. It meant i really got a strong feel about how each character is thinking and feeling throughout. Even though most of the characters were lowkey terrible, i felt attached to all of them in some way, which just made me want to keep reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment