Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

292 reviews

livangel's review against another edition

3.25

emotional funny reflective 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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Honestly, it’s a very interesting take on every day life. I think it shows how “Cleopatra” and “Frankenstein“ are both monsters and victims.  It shows that no matter how hard you try, no matter how much you love each other, sometimes relationships are sometimes bad or toxic. It makes you think about how you view or judge people and reflect on where the problem truly lies. Definitely worth a read. The book does drag on sometimes, but that’s just part of its charm. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting

Minor: Animal death, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Death of parent

kate_lemer's review against another edition

3.75

dark reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide attempt

booksaremyabode's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

river69rat's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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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Why was my tik tok full of sugar glider videos after I read THAT chapter? 

Also I could only picture Frank as looking like Kramer from Seinfeld which did mess with the immersion a bit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death of parent

buzzabelle's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense 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: Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use

nenya's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring 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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this is the kind of book where you can’t really tell that the characters are becoming your comfort characters until you find yourself looking forward to keep reading it because of them. the book is incredibly character driven and provides a very diverse set of nuanced and delicately crafted people who all, in a sense harmonize (or conflict) with one another. cleo and frank, the protagonists are both lovable and also deeply flawed and traumatized, something you and the characters themselves come to understand throughout the course of the book. what i loved most about it was that the narration style gave you insight into every single person’s thoughts and sentiments (or at least of the most important ones) not only through different POVs separated into different chapters, but also sometimes within the span of a paragraph, switching back and forth in revealing each persons internal dialogue. 
the book felt like an anti-romanticizing telltale of several New Yorker lifestyles while also being deeply philosophical and thought provoking 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

hilary_h's review against another edition

1.75

reflective sad tense slow-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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My favourite part of the book is the cover. That's about it. People who have read this book rave about it so it might just not be my might cup of tea. It's mostly charter driven there's kind of a plot but it's not really the main focus of the book I guess. Oh and way too many descriptive sexual stuff. Again, not my cup of tea.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Sexual assault, Sexual content

philippmk's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny 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, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Animal death

pancakes_for_algernon's review against another edition

2.5

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Personally, disappointing. I think BookTok had built my expectations up too much. I didn’t really like the characters, but that might be the point of the book. It was, however, a very fast read, and that was nice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

lauren_shilling's review against another edition

5.0

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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I barely know how to talk about this book. It's actually been a few days since I finished it at the time of writing this review, and I honestly cannot stress how often I have thought about this book since finishing it. The characters were so well-rounded and felt so real. This doesn't only go for the two main characters, Frank and Cleo, but also the side characters as well, such as Quentin, Eleanor, and Zoe. Every single person and character felt real and were so interesting to follow and learn about over the course of the book. I loved how we got at least one chapter in the point of view of everyone who impacted or was impacted by the plot of the book and really got to see what was going on for them. It was really well done and gave the story a very well-rounded and all-encompassing feel to it. Like I said, I barely know how to talk about this book, except for stating the fact that it is one of my favorite books of the year, it was beautifully written, and I was completely swept up in every single moment. Chapter 13, in my opinion, was so beautifully crafted and written and put together. Every word felt deliberate, every piece of dialogue felt perfect, and I will never get over the emotions that the author made me feel in that chapter.  I would highly recommend this book, but please check the trigger warnings! Overall not a super dark book, but a very, very heavy one, and there are definitely some topics to look out for!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Moderate: Self harm, Transphobia, Medical content, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual content