Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson

17 reviews

radfordmanor's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Grief, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

sophiewelsh's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Deadnaming, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Blood, and Antisemitism

laurajones's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

Moderate: Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, and Medical content

Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Miscarriage

purecomedy's review against another edition

DNF at around 40%. I was really looking forward to this exploration of Frankenstein, AI, and gender. Unfortunately, I am not willing to pay the price: withstanding the portrayal of the main transgender character that borders on fetishistic. I enjoyed some of Winterson's previous works but I really wasn't in the mood for some unexamined transphobia with my discussion about AI and so on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

hmatt's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

interesting examination of how body politics intersect with technology/AI

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

Moderate: Body horror, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexism, and Forced institutionalization

miles's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Transphobia

Minor: Deadnaming and Toxic relationship

demo's review against another edition

1.0

Winterson is one of my favourite queer writers but in the end she is a cis woman and I should have been more wary of her decision to write about the experience of being trans. Her use of a trans protagonist is exploitative (see: the sexual assault scene in the pub) and is grounded in ill-informed understandings of gender identity, transness and transition (see: Winterson's reliance on male and female as opposing biological categories, even while she ostensibly subverts the gender binary). Further, Victor's erotic obsession with Ry's transness reeks of objectification and fetishisation but is framed as romantic and loving (see: the book's subtitle of "A love story"), mirroring and revealing Winterson's own sense of entitlement to use trans people for her own purposes. And this is not to mention the ableist and fatphobic sentiments littered throughout. A hard yikes. This ain't it chief.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

Moderate: Ableism and Fatphobia