Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson

9 reviews

riledupryepie's review against another edition

funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

Missing the final 0.5 only because it simply cannot do everything - Winterson really tries though! This book is the definition of layered, and any Mary Shelley fan will enjoy.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body horror, Miscarriage, Religious bigotry, and Pregnancy

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

cleot's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Outing, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child abuse, Genocide, Pedophilia, and Suicide

the transphobia by a sex partner was particularly upsetting to me as a trans person, as was the graphic on-page sexual assault of trans man resulting from bathroom harassment

boyinajar's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

echoing some previeious concerns, it did feel a little off color to a transmasc reader  of theis novel but the surrealist experience of finishing the book was evocative enough that I give it some points

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, and Transphobia

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

wendel's review against another edition

challenging dark funny inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Imaginative, thought provoking and poetic with a dark sense of humour in a compact and quick read. From how Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley supposedly created Frankenstein to gender, relationships with robots, artificial intelligence and transhumanism; Frankissstein will make you wonder.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Sexism, Transphobia, and Religious bigotry

mobygrapes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Transphobia

Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Medical trauma

kaia's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Moderate: Child death, Sexual assault, Antisemitism, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Pedophilia

katiej's review against another edition

funny medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Transphobia, Religious bigotry, and Medical trauma

mryshells's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

1.0

Huge TW for transphobia towards characters in the book but also in the clearly problematic views the author must hold that come through in the writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Alcohol

caroline_reads's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

I enjoyed the aspect of the story that fictionalised Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Polidori and Byron's time in Geneva and onwards.  

Generally, however, I thought that the novel was generally unfocused with no clear plot or purpose. There was an unnecessary scene in which

the trans protagonist was sexually assaulted by a background character. This incident happened randomly with little build up and there was no later mention to this event in the novel. The protagonist handwaved the incident as something that has happened to him many times before and it was fine. In summary, I don't see what this scene did to further our understanding of his character and I'm tired of reading fiction in which trans or genderqueer characters are abused/face violence as though this is acceptable and an essential element of being a queer person.

. I almost gave up on the book at this point - the scene occuring 2/3s of the way through. Lazy writing at best.

Winterson indicates in her final note that the purpose of this novel is to explore how reality is unclear. Lofty ambitions, but she has not explored such an idea in a way that is compelling or adds to our understanding of human reality.

The best line of the novel comes near the end: "grief means living with someone who is no longer there."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

Moderate: Miscarriage and Religious bigotry