Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

268 reviews

rubycs's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It’s an interesting book, with each chapter a month or months in the characters lives. You do not always know which characters pov the chapter will be until about 2 pages in to each chapter. I like that you get to know a wide range of people in frank and Cleo’s lives

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Lesbophobia

rachelko's review against another edition

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Rape, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use

fanny_brtl's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional 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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painful. meaningful. perfect ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship

desilvuh's review against another edition

5.0

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

neevechristine's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-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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This took me longer to read than the average book, but the final 100 pages I read in one sitting. In the final 10 pages I was crying and banging the book against my head. It’s gorgeous and heartbreaking and raw. It filled a void I didn’t know existed 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

bethanstanleyy's review against another edition

4.75

emotional reflective sad fast-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 death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

nany29's review against another edition

3.25

dark reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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if you're into way too many characters and no distinct storyline (sally rooney-esque) , go for it, it does what it has to do with nice language, not necessarily the nicest clarity. 
bit messy on some of the characters who are afterthoughts and there are loose ends but it's a fast/satisfying read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Terminal illness, Death of parent

Minor: Animal death

anjelica's review against another edition

1.5

challenging dark slow-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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Wanted to give this a 1 star but added a little bit extra because there are some nice lines here and there. The titular characters were not nuanced, complex, or interesting enough to carry me through this character-driven book. The side characters were tokenized and stereotyped, and a racial slur for Romani people is used. There are mentions of serious topics, such as addiction and depression, but these were not explored deeply enough to garner meaningful commentary. Because of this, their traumas just felt romanticized/sensationalized for shock value.  Overall, this did not work for me personally but I do understand why some people love it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal death, Fatphobia, Transphobia, Death of parent, Sexual harassment

fromsophiewithlove's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional inspiring tense 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: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

nosophiesallowed's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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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i’m nosy, therefore i loved reading this.
didn’t feel emotionally connected to the characters though which explains the 4 star rating. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming, Death of parent