A review by tabula_risa
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I’m not really sure what I have to say about this book. I enjoyed reading it. I think maybe the way I felt during this book is how I was supposed to feel about Sally Rooney. 

Reading description after description of Cleo and then spotting Coco Mellor’s author photo was a bit of an eyebrow raise, haha. And I do have very mixed feelings about Quentin, the only queer character, being the only one with a bleak, hopeless ending. Especially considering he was only given one POV chapter in the book. idk. It just feels like this book prides itself on being adjacent to queer culture but is ultimately very heteronormative.
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