I also found Mellors’ writing about other races and cultures a bit too confident and often super generalising in a way that felt quite ignorant or tokenising.

the characters themselves were selfish, self-pitying fools (derogatory) without one redeeming quality at all.Let me give you some context of how I came about the novel: to start with, I think I was more accustomed with the cover of this novel, than I was the actual content of it. Mellors also does not have the ability to make her insufferable characters compelling like Moshfegh. so i am absolutely baffled by the hype the book is receiving and the continuous comprison of the authors. I guess, considering that it's been a month since I read this and I haven't been able to stop reading or talking or thinking about it, five stars.

And all of the side characters serve to hammer home the book's whole point about how a relationship can affect those around the couple. Cleopatra and Frankenstein, the luminous debut novel from Coco Mellors, is a book about many things: It's a great, swooning love story; a shattering depiction of how addiction and mental illness warp our lives; and a perceptive, witty portrait of globalized New York. I also admired the decision to leave Cleo without a partner, and free of the men in her life that caused such destruction. I, like every vaguely creative young person, have multiple diagnoses, but my brain chemistry failures never include installing art with my self harmed body at the center for my loved ones to find, I will tell you that. For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage.

I started off quite enjoying the vibe of this (because that’s all it’s really offering is a vibe) but I’ve never read a book that is more up itself. I stayed attached to my tracic awfully flawed heroine, I guess that’s my greek side in me, whatever¿ (GIVE ME MORE TRAGIC AWFUL HEROINES OKAY? And also, in addition to this, there was a character I loved so much that I cried through her chapters (of which there are only two), an insanely earnest and vulnerable moment the likes of which has never occurred to me ever.