Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

103 reviews

xbernadette's review against another edition

3.0

dark 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: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Abandonment, Classism

vrie's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-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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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

keesreads's review against another edition

2.0

dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Deportation

jenameul's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional funny hopeful 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

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Dementia

minxtte's review against another edition

5.0

emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide

Minor: Pregnancy

zoe_mh's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Transphobia, Death of parent

ninaszewczyk's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny reflective relaxing 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, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness

Minor: Chronic illness, Toxic friendship

emziesreads's review against another edition

3.0

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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How many times can a book try to shock you by mentioning masturbation? This book falls into the messy woman trope - you've read one, you've read them all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

rmakenzie's review against another edition

2.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I genuinely can’t tell if I enjoyed this book, but I’m leaning towards no. It randomly had really beautiful prose at times, but the rest of the time I was gritting my teeth and forcing myself to finish it. It’s almost like it was written like a movie. Too fast. Too much jumping through time. This book has almost no plot, so it should be character driven, but I felt like most of the characters were so….hollow. When you finally learned something about a character, or there was a breakthrough, the chapter would end, two months would pass, and suddenly you’re reading from someone else’s point of view. 

I wish this book gave us more of Zoe. She was a funny, insufferable, not entirely likable character.

 I hated the way Cleo was described throughout this book. We GET IT. She’s young! Blonde! Small! English! Angelic! Intense! If I have to read one more sentence about how innocent and cherubic and childlike she looks I’ll scream. 

I liked Eleanor alot. She was clever and raw. When the book was in Eleanor’s point of view I actually enjoyed the prose.

In summation, good for them I guess. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

lunaschu's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Mooi boek en ook wel goed geschreven, maar ook erg deprimerend en ik droomde alleen nog maar over vreemdgaan.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent