Book Review :: Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors (☆ ☆ ☆ ☆☆ )
This book will *not* be for everyone, but I loved it. I laughed through the first half and cried through the second. I’ve seen it compared to Sally Rooney but I’ve found Rooney more dry and sarcastic with complicated characters, and I found Mellors more witty and kitsch with characters I found more endearing.
Cleo and Frank, the main characters, are both pretentious and ridiculous but that made me love it all more. Cleo is a young British artist and Frank is a New York advertising executive. The pair meets and marries impulsively, and the rest of the story is the two of them fumbling and figuring it out along a cast of flawed friends and family.
I love the way Coco Mellors writes, and I am excited to see she has another novel coming out in 2023.
Content warnings: suicide, sexual violence
Read if you like: read if you like: Fleishman is in Trouble, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Family of Origin
