Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

450 reviews

gracebuffin's review against another edition

5.0

challenging hopeful lighthearted 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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i wanted to be petty and not give this 5 stars because the ending made me so mad 😭 but i knew it’d end up coming back and changing it. the book was just too good 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief

Minor: Dementia

b_e_e3's review against another edition

3.25

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

lizby's review against another edition

2.0

dark 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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this book took me forever to read and by the 2 nd half i plowed through mostly bc i wanted it to be over. idk why i just couldn’t connect with any of the characters and just wanted to know the ending. unsatisfying

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content

nadiellabythebook's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful 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

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship

clairebert's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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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Really complex book… both characters were deeply flawed but really mesmerising. You really get the idea that they are both dealing with unresolved annoyances with family by seeing themselves in each other.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt

izzy_reads_books's review against another edition

4.5

dark 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Sexual content

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

magz96's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective 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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Very character-driven. Not a big plot which is fine with me. I liked the different POVs of the side characters— gave them more depth. Kind of wanted the book to be longer so I could continue to hear the inner monologue of characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt

kjvita's review against another edition

4.0

dark 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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, 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, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

faithjustreads's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic friendship