Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

88 reviews

remuslibrary's review against another edition

3.25

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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Vomit, Death of parent

inka2704's review against another edition

3.5

challenging 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

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

dexlud's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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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Cleopatra and Frankenstein is a stunning novel, especially as a debut one. Coco Mellors puts so much passion into this novel and it just makes you love the characters and then rips them apart. I love this book so much! Mellors may have written my current all-time favourite! I will 100% be reading her other works!

Cleopatra and Frankenstein is a book whose narrative changes as the story goes on. LIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD FOR STRUCTURE -

During the start, when everything is happy and fine, the narrative is joyful and happy, however once everything goes downhill, it switches to an emotional and beautiful narrative that honestly just makes you want to cry. Once everything begins to get better, the narrative once again changes, this time back to the start, where everything is getting better, however it's like the narrative is like the start, but with experience from the middle part.

For people who would like to read this, be warned that there is a lot of drug use and sex throughout this book, and some topics that some people may dislike or be triggered by!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship

ninaaac03's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny reflective 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

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Dementia, Death of parent, Alcohol

ellieyy's review against another edition

2.5

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

bugsybugs's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent

dakotahreads's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional reflective 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, Self harm

Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Dementia, Death of parent

veepopp's review against another edition

4.0

emotional tense 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, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt

Minor: Dementia, Death of parent

kathshiroma's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Dementia, Death of parent

Minor: Fatphobia, Sexual assault

Lovely writing and beautifully nuanced characters. But it is so obvious when going into POCs’ POVs that the author is white. The conversation between POC characters, specifically the one between a Japanese man and a Black woman, are especially uncomfortable to read. There is also a chapter that focuses on a character’s weight loss journey, with many comments and themes that can be harmful. An overall gorgeous book, but another example of it being better for authors to either be more careful or to simply write what they know.

celestialvibrations's review against another edition

1.0

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dips its toes in heavy topics without any depth of exploration. ultimately shallow, self-insert trash that seems to glamorize depression and MPDG trope without saying anything. dialogue between characters is cringe and unrealistic. the comparisons to sally rooney bewilder me honestly. the cover and title are the best things about the book. the one star is for eleanor's first chapter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Suicide