Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

957 reviews

lornie_howlett's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

dearkatie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Animal death

rhiannon_hall_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A rollercoaster read that takes you through all the emotions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Dementia, and Death of parent

tilla's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

“People are like this too, you know”, he says eventually. “We break. We put ourselves back together. The cracks are the best part. You don’t have to hide them.”

 A story about people broken in many different ways. People living fast-paced lives that sometimes run them over. 
Of people not being right for each other and only making each other worse. It’s sad moments and beautiful moments and sometimes strangely hopeful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Sexual content, and Suicide attempt

kbeefive's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

5.0

Beautiful, poetic, art and sadness 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

ssaammii's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This was an entertaining read that I was compulsively drawn back to. 
The prose was successful in capturing a very specific atmosphere at points that resonated with me, but did sometimes fail to thread the needle between the observation and critique of familiar internal demons, and indulging/condoning the worst actions of its characters. I found myself very much riding off the vibes the characters as a collective, bevause as individuals they could be somewhat unbearable at times. I did find the passage of time to be very well articulated through the seasonal changes and the character interactions that developed naturally.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Transphobia, and Vomit

crimpykooky's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, and Suicide attempt

smily_tiffany's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Mellors brings out the ugliness and tenderness of a bunch of broken characters to form an intimate and emotional story about how love is complicated yet what holds us all together. I really enjoyed all of it, as if I was just watching a year in the life of a group of friends and lovers unfold patiently and unexpectedly before my eyes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

lenabump's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Suicide attempt

crazyinlove's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I think there are a lot of good ideas in the book, but it feels more like a draft then a cohesive and polished novel. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt