Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Cleopatra und Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

32 reviews

celticthistle's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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

3.5

A bit like Marmite. You'll either love it or hate!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Blood

firuz's review against another edition

reflective sad

• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, and Blood

laurafrances's review against another edition

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

remuslibrary's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Vomit, and Death of parent

savannah_faith's review against another edition

funny reflective tense 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

2.25

THIS IS JUST MY OPINION, NO HATE TO THE AUTHOR OR ANYONE WHO LOVES THIS BOOK! WE ARE ALL ALLOWED TO HAVE INDIVIDUAL IDEAS AND THOUGHT! Thank you, I love you, and lmk what you think 🫶!   

P.S. THIS CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS 😅

Cleopatra and Frankenstine by CoCo Mellors

I started this book blindly, I had seen the cover on Lemon8 and loved it. Obviously I added it to my tbr and then soon after bought it on my kindle and omg do I wish this book was free on KIndle Unlimited because I’m kind of annoyed that I paid for it LOL (just me being dramatic about liking some parts but not the book as a whole). Now see I completely understand why Elenor was so crucial to Franks story but we did not need to know that much about her life. She’s boring, her dad died, she’s the reason Frank wanted to be better, all of the important things about her that make Frank fall for her could have easily fit into one maybe two chapters if you’re pushing it. But I didn’t need so many pages about her. Another thing is this book needs a small self harming warning ⚠️ fr, I mean the scene isn’t too graphic but the way Frank describes his experience and emotions with Cleo’s incident definitely hit the heart strings if you or anyone you know has been in a self harming situation. AND the way Cleo “processes” her mental situation with an installation for her art show for everyone to see and relive disgusted me and I completely understand the constant shift in Franks words with and about her. Other than that I hope Santiago and Dominique live the happiest and most fulfilled life together 🫶. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Body shaming and Fatphobia

carla20's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

No plot just vibes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual content, Suicide, and Death of parent

tarnya_smith's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is the perfect book for me and I loved it. 

We follow Cleo and Frank who meet and quickly marry. He's much older, successful and an alcoholic and Cleo is a young English artist who is seduced by his charm. We follow their relationship, their friends, family and life as it changes. 

This was beautifully written with so many tender moments. I listened to the audiobook and immediately bought the physical copy after so I can sit and go through tabbing all the moments I want to remember. 

As a modern romance story with some very dark themes, this is still easy listening, fun in parts and honestly raw in others. It's been compared to Sally Rooney and I agree but would say this felt well rounded and darker, like the 18 rated version of Conversation with Friends. 

An author to keep an eye on in the future for me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

kathshiroma's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Dementia, and Death of parent

Minor: Fatphobia and Sexual assault

Lovely writing and beautifully nuanced characters. But it is so obvious when going into POCs’ POVs that the author is white. The conversation between POC characters, specifically the one between a Japanese man and a Black woman, are especially uncomfortable to read. There is also a chapter that focuses on a character’s weight loss journey, with many comments and themes that can be harmful. An overall gorgeous book, but another example of it being better for authors to either be more careful or to simply write what they know.

cle1862's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.5

Liked how real the characters felt but i didn't like them very much. Felt a little pretentious at times but maybe that was the point. Maybe would have felt better if the protagonist didn't seem to have so many similarities to the author in physical description and career trajectory. I did enjoy the writing though. Spin-off about Zoe would be cool. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

dilarasnr's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Transphobia, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia