A review by elanakw
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

3.0

Damn. I wanted to love this. I’m keen on far from perfect people in messy situations and intense love/ideas of love, but I found everyone so repulsive, pretentious and unnecessarily cruel. It made me miserable? The portrayals of violent mental illness were dangerous and the heated arguments bordered on sadistic. The worst part of it all was that I didn’t really care to read about everyone connected to Frank and Cleo, and just wanted to finish their story so they could find some peace and finish the book. Proud of myself for finishing.