Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

85 reviews

maartabarrales's review against another edition

4.25

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, Animal death, Drug use, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Moderate: Sexism, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Classism

Minor: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual assault

reinalamala's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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4.5/5

My boyfriend chose, at random, a book for me to read off my tbr and I’m so glad this was the one! My only complaint is that I feel like some characters didn’t get quite the wrap up to their storylines that I wanted to see. Definitely left me wanting more!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol

livd1200's review against another edition

3.0

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, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol

volha's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment

kayolay's review against another edition

3.25

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

Graphic: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

lucykateburns's review against another edition

3.5

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

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship

Minor: Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Death of parent, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

margozaldivar's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment

moonbeammckenna's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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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Jesus fucking Christ, what a book. The plot, the characters, Cleo, Frank, Santiago, Zoe, oh my God I’m never going to get this book out of my head. Coco Mellors writes just one line of poetry after another, interspersed with tragedy and beauty and something I didn’t know how to put into words but she definitely managed to. I wish I could write a review as beautifully as the book was written but I’m not going to be able to do it justice.

The characters were all thinking the same perceptive, disheartening, honest thoughts as if they were the same person, and only their actions separated them from one another. I loved the way Mellors delved into the ugliness of human existence and didn’t try to come out with a happy ending – she left it at ugly and turned it in to something lovely and so, so sad. She writes about people in such a way that makes me yearn for more human connection and confront the biases I have about people – I achingly relate to Cleo and Frank and at the same time know that I don’t really have any idea what any of them are going through. 

I so badly wanted to hate Anders for being pretentious and creepy and Frank for falling in love with someone else and Cleo for being overbearingly feminist and a cheater and Quentin for being a prick in general, but I can’t condemn them knowing their minds and it SUCKS, but it’s something that I hope I take away from this and apply it to the real people in my life.

I am in tears and I don’t think I’m going to be able to read another book for a month, or at least until I stop feeling my heart torn in two whenever I think about it. I feel genuinely changed because of this book, and I hope it goes away soon. Five mother-freaking-stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Abandonment

sib_reads's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Transphobia, Gaslighting, Abandonment

Minor: Pregnancy

euge's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Alcohol