Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

553 reviews

lucyduller's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny reflective sad 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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I read the reviews of this book immediately after finishing it and became so defensive of the book that I knew it was a 5 star read, that and the endless tears escaping in the last chapter.

I will admit this book isn’t for everyone, it’s a miserable, quite depressing book, with a writing style poetic yet dull, so I understand why people don’t like it, but those are the reasons I loved it. 

I agree that during the book I sometimes get lost, but to call it trauma p*rn is ridiculous, I think it’s real and raw and honest. I also found it really funny at parts so to say there is no relief I think is being hyperbolic. 

The cast of ensemble characters that we see vignettes of really made me love this book, characters are what I fall in love with in stories, not the plot, and so to have a cast of fleshed out people was so interesting and made for a richer read. Also it really set the scene of a book set in NYC, it made it so much richer. 

But at the end of the day, and the book, it’s about Cleo and Frank and 💔 their tragic love is - for me- up there with Marianne and Connell of Normal People, and Em and Dex of One Day. Which is why I cried so much at the end. Two people, so not right for each other but who try and love each other despite all that. 

For this to be Coco Mellors’ debut novel made me INSANE, but also the fact that it took 7 years to write makes so much sense to me. Writers, take all the time you need if it means you can write books like these. We don’t need a factory of churned our books (Colleen Hoover, James Patterson, Matt Haig, even *gasp* Emily Henry). 

Because books like these make me fall back in love with reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

lauraloren's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

jaspercanread's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional reflective medium-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

imartinez224's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt

nineinchnails's review against another edition

3.0

challenging emotional reflective 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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more detailed review to come but for now let’s just say it was a little disappointing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Drug abuse, Grief

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Suicide, Death of parent

Disordered eating

livcashmere's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide attempt

jenni_bear's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-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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This book was horrific but beautiful; reading it will make you judge a stranger differently than before <3

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Content Warnings

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

sweetjuly_src's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-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 death, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual content, Vomit, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Self harm, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

danielatheinkdrinker's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional sad fast-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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There is no longer any Cleopatra- the undoer of men or Frankenstein- the creator of monsters. It is just Cleo and Frank, two people that meet at the darkest part of their soul; – and create light.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt

marissanbullis's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Death of parent