Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

730 reviews

marymoth's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Self harm, Grief

gotopaige's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark 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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Beautiful, ugly, mundane, and extraordinary all at the same time. Loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Self harm, Sexual content

Moderate: Self harm

rachel101's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-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

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship

isobellouisex's review against another edition

3.5

challenging emotional reflective 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Sexual content

xabbeylongx's review against another edition

2.0

challenging funny slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse

maecaitlin's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark 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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Beautiful prose, yet the mix of POVs occasionally felt a bit cluttered. For my first reading, Mellors’ focalisation shifts drew away from the intimacy of Cleo/Frank’s relationship.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Self harm, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Emotional abuse

af666014's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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Very similar to Hello Beautiful but more characters that we were following. It threw me that the author switches narration style for only one of them, but overall, good book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Self harm, Suicide attempt

teslis's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional reflective 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 was GREAT! I loved the language and that I got to meet multiple pov, I really like that I got to hate

Frank

in the beginning and in the end I started to really like that character. And the opposite with

Quentin

. So excited for my book club’s discussion on the future. If you want to read this book, go read it now! It’s amazing!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Moderate: Suicide, Transphobia, Abandonment

ylvasorli's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective 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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WOW wow WOW wow!

It's immediately one of my favorite books of all time, and it's hard to put into words how much I love it. I love books that are character-driven, with no plot - just vibes, and this one is just that. Coco Mellors has a way with words, and I'm just in awe that this is her debut. Will be reading everything she publishes in the future, starting with Blue Sisters!

Never have I read a book that has made me go from liking - to hating - to loving a character during one chapter, over and over again. This book was also a tad too relatable, so it has made me think A LOT about my own life. Oh well...

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Self harm

ktay36's review against another edition

3.0

challenging emotional reflective sad 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

Moderate: Self harm