Reviews with content warning for Suicide attempt - Cleópatra e Frankenstein

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Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

1278 reviews

gritsgritsgrits's review against another edition

3.5

dark funny 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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samvgass's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny reflective 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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bskalka's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

I will say I almost didn't rate this five stars, it was a really tough decision. I loved all of the side character pov's and how everyone had their issues going on, but

I felt like Frank didn't deserve his happy ending. When he did finally go visit Cleo in Italy, he acknowledged, but didn't apologize, which she definitely deserved an apology. The fact that he got sober for Elenore but didn't even try for Cleo and still had a nice ending left a sour taste in my mouth. However, I kind of realized that we, the readers, aren't supposed to forgive Frank for what he did. The last chapter still puts an emphasis on how Cleo felt like he didn't really resolve things correctly with her and was still subtly playing the victim card. It felt better that Cleo seemed to also have a happy ending. From the start of the book I feel like I could tell they weren't going to end up together, and Franks relationship with Elenore also kind of solidified that for me.

After thinking about the ending for a while and realizing that Coco Mellors didn't want Frank to be perceived as some kind of redeemed character, I decided I would still give this five stars. Also I want a book about Quentin so bad. He was easily my favorite character.

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veelaughtland's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark sad medium-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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bellerose27's review against another edition

3.5

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Complicated

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paula357's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional

the beginning was really hard and the writing felt extremely bumpy. but after some time i started to enjoy the book and then really fell in love with the characters

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nico7701's review against another edition

3.75

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The writing was fine, but I missed an overarching story. There isn’t really a point to this book and the writing isn’t good enough to be a literary masterpiece to be worth reading for just that. I also cannot stand self-pitying, self-righteous self-insert characters. And overall I deeply disliked all characters (except for Santiago). I really wanted to tell them all „as if it isn’t the consequences of your own actions“.
It‘s fine, but I think it’s overhyped and wouldn’t necessarily recommend it.

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