Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

33 reviews

faithjustreads's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional 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: Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic friendship

lexcellent's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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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Fuck Frank. Cleo wasn't perfect, but she deserved more. She's definitely better off without him, though.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

supermormongirl's review against another edition

0.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense 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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There’s racist tropes of angry POC, a LOT of fatphobia, and a wildy misogynistic fantasy rape and murder scene- literally none of this was necessary at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Acephobia/Arophobia, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation

bskalka's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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 will say I almost didn't rate this five stars, it was a really tough decision. I loved all of the side character pov's and how everyone had their issues going on, but

I felt like Frank didn't deserve his happy ending. When he did finally go visit Cleo in Italy, he acknowledged, but didn't apologize, which she definitely deserved an apology. The fact that he got sober for Elenore but didn't even try for Cleo and still had a nice ending left a sour taste in my mouth. However, I kind of realized that we, the readers, aren't supposed to forgive Frank for what he did. The last chapter still puts an emphasis on how Cleo felt like he didn't really resolve things correctly with her and was still subtly playing the victim card. It felt better that Cleo seemed to also have a happy ending. From the start of the book I feel like I could tell they weren't going to end up together, and Franks relationship with Elenore also kind of solidified that for me.

After thinking about the ending for a while and realizing that Coco Mellors didn't want Frank to be perceived as some kind of redeemed character, I decided I would still give this five stars. Also I want a book about Quentin so bad. He was easily my favorite character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism

arianappstrg's review against another edition

2.5

dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racism

findingmyshoes's review against another edition

3.0

emotional funny 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent

rgs's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful sad slow-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, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual content, Death of parent, Alcohol

Moderate: Chronic illness, Racism, Dementia, Abandonment

Minor: Body shaming

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

amy_holden23's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective sad 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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This book showed me why I don't read literary fiction- it broke my heart and then started to put it together again but I still wasn't happy. This book is super dark and was really triggering. That being said the characters felt so real and it will stay with me for a long time. The writing also was phenomenal!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Cancer, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Abandonment

Minor: Mental illness, Racism, Sexual harassment

jennifer_krebs's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional 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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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Racism, Transphobia, Vomit