Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

403 reviews

miaach's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny reflective sad

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: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

Minor: Medical content

jamie003's review against another edition

2.75

dark sad fast-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, Mental illness, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent

Minor: Racial slurs, Transphobia

8zz8zz's review against another edition

4.75

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship

caiitydid's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

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Easily my favorite book. The novel is heartbreaking and beautiful. It details, in brutal honesty, what the reality of living within a toxic relationship looks like from every point of view in a person’s life. Mellors is an author with a deep understanding of the human condition. Cleopatra and Frankenstein explores the importance of grief, sympathy, endurance, optimism, compassion, honesty, sobriety, sex, self worth, therapy, art, and love both platonic and romantic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol

aerieberry's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective 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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This book shows the poignant complexity of relationships. How one relationship can affect one's relationship with other people. Cleo was so young and she deserves people to love her, understand her, and look after her. I am so glad to witness her healing in the latter pages of the book. As for Frank, I still hate him for what he did to Jesus. I also hate how he couldn't give what Cleo asked of her, yet she gave it to Eleanor easily. Overall, I love this book and I am looking forward to reading Blue Sisters.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment

robinm15's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional 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

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt

nina_elin's review against another edition

2.75

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

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I love books like this where every single character just has issues and problems and nobody is truly happy for most of the book. Yet here I found it hard to care for some of the characters at times. Surprisingly, I still grew fond of most of them towards the end of the book, and I like that there is nobody that I can truly classify as the villain of the story. Still, I had to force myself through this book at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Abandonment

Minor: Racism, Vomit

lululovescrochet's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Grief, Suicide attempt

susan2424's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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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I found that there were a lot of distressing moments in this novel, but having said that, the characters were so well written that I wanted to continue reading to the end. The final chapter was beautifully written, and the ending was very satisfying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting

Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Death of parent

skyfluff's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail