Reviews with content warning for Suicide - Cleópatra e Frankenstein

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Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

421 reviews

lacoure's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

An engrossing read from the start. Well written- I appreciated the lay out and how the chapters jump to different characters perspectives. A little depressing but with a good ending. I enjoyed it but wouldn’t read again.

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mmemontagne's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional 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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loanndbehold's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing 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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itotiani's review against another edition

2.0

Plot or Character Driven: Character

The transphobic pov of the writer ruined it for me.
If you wanna read it to see what all the hype is about, borrow it from a library, don't give your money to a transphobic author.

The cis straight characters get good development and satisfying arcs, even giving up realism in the case of

a sugar baby's very unrealistic happy ending

, but the trans character

becomes a methhead pretty gratuitously off screen, so what we actually see goes from 0 to 100% way too quickly

and is misgendered by the author throughout the whole book.

It took me a while of digesting the book to realize how deeply transphobic it was, so I see why a lot of people miss it, specially when the main character's stories are so compelling. Eleanor's chapter was my favorite in the book and I enjoyed it very much.

So I don't throw the 7 years it took Coco Melliors to finish this book in the trash, but I do think her transphobic views belong there. Like, girl, in 7 years you couldn't learn to view trans women as humans deserving respect and decent representation? Or at least to use the correct pronouns? This book could've been a 5 star if she had.

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shampainprblmz's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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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brianareads's review against another edition

4.0

dark funny sad fast-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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livd1200's review against another edition

3.0

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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sheonceread's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional reflective 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

the reviews for this are a mess and so was it. i guess it’s trying to do the whole mediocre people in mediocre situations, human relationships type of reflective story but it just didn’t hit the way it’s supposed to. it’s too long, for one. and the narrative is all over the place, which i usually dont mind, but it just seemed erratic—maybe that’s the whole theme i dont know. lots of the characters are so stereotypical of their race/sexuality, in my opinion, and there were some parts that i think was unnecessary and even a little offensive.

(see: sugar glider)

it got better right at the end and i finally felt the warm, emotional feeling i was supposed to get the whole book. i can appreciate this book, but i don’t love it and it’s such a shame because i REALLY wanted to.

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malebrina's review against another edition

3.0

emotional reflective sad tense 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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rmakenzie's review against another edition

2.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I genuinely can’t tell if I enjoyed this book, but I’m leaning towards no. It randomly had really beautiful prose at times, but the rest of the time I was gritting my teeth and forcing myself to finish it. It’s almost like it was written like a movie. Too fast. Too much jumping through time. This book has almost no plot, so it should be character driven, but I felt like most of the characters were so….hollow. When you finally learned something about a character, or there was a breakthrough, the chapter would end, two months would pass, and suddenly you’re reading from someone else’s point of view.

I wish this book gave us more of Zoe. She was a funny, insufferable, not entirely likable character.

I hated the way Cleo was described throughout this book. We GET IT. She’s young! Blonde! Small! English! Angelic! Intense! If I have to read one more sentence about how innocent and cherubic and childlike she looks I’ll scream.

I liked Eleanor alot. She was clever and raw. When the book was in Eleanor’s point of view I actually enjoyed the prose.

In summation, good for them I guess.

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