Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

189 reviews

arayo's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Confinement

euhfubeuh's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a tale of corruption, lonesomeness, and terror. Dr. Frankenstein learns how his own actions to satisfy his loneliness may come back to haunt him, and Frankenstein’s monster is born with a fresh moral slate but the disadvantage of ugliness and the victim of prejudice. This story exhibits the effects of a bigoted society on one’s moral values, and how one lonely scientist takes things too far.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Religious bigotry

abby_can_read's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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

3.0

🎧
This book was fine. It was a struggle at times. I liked the narrators. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Incest, and Racism

toksoplazmozy's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Incest, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

julells's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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

3.75

Ein ewiger, poetisch umschriebener Wettkampf, wer am meisten leidet und wessen Schuld es ist.
Ein absolutes Muss für alle, die Klassiker lieben, für alle anderen wahrscheinlich etwas anstrengend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

obi_wan_kenobook's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Die Idee: ja!
Stilistische Umsetzung: Nicht 100% überzeugend.
Ohne Interesse daran herauszufinden, warum dies ein Klassiker ist, hätte ich es wahrscheinlich nicht fertig gelesen.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Death of parent

jewels_pg's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

A good book for a dark and stormy night, however if you are reading this because you love the movies, I would suggest reading something else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Racial slurs

riverofhorton's review against another edition

I decided to DNF this particular version simply because I discovered this to be the heavily edited 1831 version, and I would rather read the original 1818 version.

That said, I was enjoying it up to that discovery and as such will be purchasing and reading a copy of the 1818 text at some point in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

c_alexander's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, and Medical content

Minor: Confinement and Death of parent

mr_d8a's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Fascinating concept. The language of the story is very high society and somewhat to flowery for a reader some 200 years removed. If there were a translation that was more readable it might be better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts