Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

83 reviews

holz_18's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol

hypnoticalien's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 70%

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship

lindsayerin's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt

sofia_elena's review against another edition

1.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A book about people stewing in their self-absorbed misery, without any ability or willingness to reflect, grow or feel empathy. Somehow the characters felt shallow and a bit caricature-like, and the book was just too long overall. The meaningful topics it does touch upon are not really developed, such as what it means to be so wholly dependent on your much older husband for money, love, a greencard. While it had some short, thoughtful moments and I didn't hate all of it, and admittedly some character development was squeezed in in the final pages, overall it did not make for an interesting read to me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Animal cruelty, Suicide attempt

sofiiiik's review against another edition

0.25

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I hate this book till I die

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcohol

rileyguts's review against another edition

2.0

dark sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse

nix_jinx's review against another edition

2.75

dark emotional funny 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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Glad I persevered to the end, but there were several chunks of this one that I straight-up hated. Not to say the writing was bad, or the story not worth reading, it was just extremely unpleasant. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

swamp__hag's review against another edition

3.5

challenging 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

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt

lexcellent's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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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Fuck Frank. Cleo wasn't perfect, but she deserved more. She's definitely better off without him, though.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

candycities's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Self harm