Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

732 reviews

georgiehar's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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: Self harm

theraindiary's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional reflective sad 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria

Moderate: Misogyny, Transphobia, Death of parent

read_between_the_wines's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Dementia, Death of parent

medini_l's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective 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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Blood, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol

reneest's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective 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: Addiction, Alcoholism

Moderate: Self harm

crawforl's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

readersmultiverse's review against another edition

2.5

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-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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• Brilliant writing, very creative and immersive. 
• Important topics were explored well. 
• Plot was almost non-existent. It was just New York, alcohol, drugs, infidelity and vibes. 
• More of a character case study kind of book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol

eleanorferrari17's review against another edition

3.75

emotional funny reflective 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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I really enjoyed this book. Beautifully written dialogue between characters, with every argument, party and outing uncovering a different side to the characters. Cleo, Frank and Zoe felt like fully fleshed out people, and I felt very invested in their storylines.

I’ve voted it 3.75 because I finished it wanting more from some of the storylines, and some things were left unresolved

Zoe and her acting career / new man, and Anders and the whole Cleo affair

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Self harm, Blood, Alcohol

shanthigni's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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: Alcoholism, Self harm, Blood, Suicide attempt

shealen's review against another edition

4.5

challenging 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 really challenged me emotionally and I don’t even have related experience to what the characters were going through other than mental health struggles, yet I still felt so connected and entwined with them and all of their flaws. They are not easy characters to love, and that was the point, I believe. The two characters I found I liked the most only had 1 chapter and 2 chapters accordingly. Very powerful writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Death of parent