Reviews tagging Vomit

Cleopatra and Frankenstein, by Coco Mellors

9 reviews

clxrxdxvxs's review

dark emotional slow-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

Toxic characters who are miserable in NYC.  Join the club.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Infidelity, Death, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Alcoholism, Blood, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Injury/injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, and Self harm

inesbnstgry's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Definitely don't read this unless you're mentally strong enough to bear it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Abandonment, Addiction, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Drug use, Racism, Transphobia, Death, Animal death, Vomit, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

sydneybedell's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Infidelity

Minor: Animal death and Vomit

roxsyvette's review

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

The most beautiful book I have read in 2022. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Vomit, Injury/injury detail, Drug use, Self harm, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical trauma

and_abigail's review

dark emotional reflective 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

4.5

really excellent and stunningly written. the only reason it’s not five stars is because i think the author tried to touch on too many subjects (queer identity, racial identity, fat phobia) without going deeper into any of them. we got these characters perspectives for one or two chapters and never really fleshed out their issues in a meaningful way, esp with Quentin. otherwise it was very very good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Violence, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Self harm, Infidelity, Injury/injury detail, Death of parent, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Physical abuse

kayolay's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Addiction

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

theminimalbookclub's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

oh wow. i can relate. this book is about how fucking sad love can be. this book is about two people loving eatch other, but looosing themselves because they are not meant for each other. because love is not enough. because love can be toxic. because sometimes you are better off with someone else, even though you truely love the other person. 

this book is about s*x. s*x and s*x talks. maybe because people of that age express love through physical intimacy, as well as compensate for loneliness through it?

this book felt like beautiful world, where are you. 

i respect this book for including gay sex (yup, very detailled) and a person struggling with gender identity. and for writting about sexual assults by women (just one sentence but still i noticed it).

i underlined almost every freaking sentence of this book. because i can relate. because i can feel with the characters. but it didn't hit an emotional spot. i wish it did. in the middle of the book it almost put me in a reading slump tbh. i even had to listen to the audiobook while reading it, to make any progress. at some point i was like waiting for the book to get interesting.

it did get better. the second half was better (as soon as eleanor appears) and the ending is so sad (and happy and hopeful at the same time).

my favorite character is eleanor (because i always feel like the one unhappy in love, the one overseen, the one having a crush but never does anything to be with that person because i have a low self-esteem) and cleo (because she is kind of the opposite, because she does end up with the person she loves but it didn't work out, because she experiences a toxic relationship, because she struggles with herself and the world even tho everyone looks up to her, because she does make progress, because she starts her journey to find herself and what makes her happy).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Eating disorder

marjoleinvanderspoel's review

dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.0

Boy oh boy. Is two stars too generous? This was in turn exciting to read because the author is actually pretty good and also excruciating to read because the characters were unbelievably self-absorbed, annoying and fake. The only character I kind of liked was Zoe, but she got like no time at all in the book. Why even include her if she wasn't important/going to get a good story arch? Well, it's for "diversity" of course. Tell me, why were all side characters part of a minority when the main characters were (mostly) straight and white??? It's just comes off as cheap, I'm sorry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal death, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Misogyny, Infidelity, Fatphobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit and Emotional abuse

sderrig's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-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: Death, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/injury detail, and Mental illness