![]() ![]() Definitely looking forward to her future works. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets. Such an interesting book for a debut novel, read in acknowledgments that this was a 7 year labour of love. With that said, two of the characters that had great character development much early on was Santiago and Eleanor. Nonetheless, I have underlying masochist tendencies and like to experience painful conversations and dialogues of entitled, privileged, pretentious people. Cleopatra and Frankenstein, the luminous debut novel from Coco Mellors. ![]() The two MCs are toxic to each other and to themselves, personalities most of the times where pretentious with a lot of woke undertones. Cleo and Frank run head-first into a romance that neither of them can quite. This book is a definition of NO PLOT JUST VIBES. Cleopatra and Frankenstein is an astounding and painfully relatable debut. Everyone has baggage and it’s like watching a train wreck of a movie that sucks you in even when the plot is non- existent. Cleo and Frank run head-first into a romance that neither of them can quite. The writing sucks you in and the pacing/chapters are written in a somewhat monthly timeline where it involves anyone’s POV Cleo, Frank, Quentin, Zoe, Santiago, Anders and Eleanor. Was tossing up between 1 star rating to 5 star rating, it kept moving all through out settled on a 3.5 star rating. ![]() I literally just finished the book a mere seconds ago and don’t know how to feel- it ended as swiftly as it started. ![]()
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