Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

421 reviews

desireewoodwhite's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Eating disorder, Sexism, Death of parent

beccamarriner's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

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I absolutely loved Mellors’ way of writing. I was totally hooked by every scene and every thought. She could write 100 books and it’s likely I would read them all. My only qualm with the book was the multiple perspectives. It’s never my favourite way of reading a book and in the case of cleopatra and Frankenstein, I feel like it left gaps in the story. I wanted to know the finer details in their marriage story that were omitted in favour of an event that was somewhat irrelevant.

I would’ve instead loved a book from about Cleo and Frank and their marriage. Then another book about Santiago moving to a new relationship following the death of his wife whilst his friends marriage is in turmoil. I’d need a whole series for Zoe where we read about her from the first spiritual class, to her sugar daddy’s to her own group. Even a book about Anders’ and how he moved to LA, struggled to maintain a relationship with his ex-stepson and got involved with his friends wife.

Cleopatra and Frankenstein was a good book but with Mellors’ storytelling, it could’ve been an all-consuming series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide

charlottepaigee's review against another edition

4.75

challenging emotional hopeful 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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surprised just how much I loved this! the realisation that there would be chapters from other characters aside from Cleo and Frank was the first hint I was going to get on with this! just really liked it and am v intrigued to find out it’s going to be made for tv too…much to think about!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Self harm, Suicide attempt

Minor: Suicide

ciarakilroy98's review against another edition

2.75

dark reflective sad tense slow-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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I was really enjoying reading about the messy cast of characters and their antics but some of the politics of this book are so questionable and I don’t really feel like the author said or did anything revolutionary besides reaffirming that people with trauma do fucked up things?? The writing was really compelling and kept me engaged for about 200 pages but then it became a sort of chore to finish and could have been about 100 pages shorter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse

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

hschaapkens's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional sad 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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Blood, Grief, Classism

Minor: Cultural appropriation

katyszen's review against another edition

3.25

challenging emotional sad 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: Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt

milliebrierley's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional 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: Alcoholism, Animal death, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt

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