I have no idea if this was meant to be sexy or funny or what, but it just came across incredibly strangely to me. I not only want, but need to feel as if I'm swept away into another time and that was not the case here. Like the Frankenstein's aren't adorable nerds, they're a couple of megalomaniacs with delusions of grandeur and no thought for anything but their own supposed mental superiority and how famous they're gonna be once they reanimate a dead person they've sewn together.

Like her brother, her only thought is her own needs, never seeing the face she instantly "falls in love with" as someone who should be afforded dignity and respect for their humanity. The explicit language was pretty minimal, but I’ve been hurt a lot in this reading journey of mine so I’m counting this as a major victory. witty banter, a sexy, toe-curling romance, and voice that pirouettes off the page, but add one part Tim Burton’ CHRISTINA LAUREN’Bridgerton meets The Addams Family .Please note: This review may not be reproduced or quoted, in whole or in part, without explicit consent from the author.

The characters weren't afraid to show how in love they were all the time, especially Angelika – except, of course, they couldn't be together. This is obviously a re-telling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, only in this version Victor is resurrecting dead bodies to find a husband and partner for his sister Angelika. You see, Angelika is a bit ‘not-like-other-girls’ and despite being beautiful, exceedingly rich and clever, she makes men run screaming from her because she’s too eager in her attempts to woo them. Angelika Frankenstein wants a husband but she’s a Frankenstein so she’s a little weird, socially awkward, and sends men running with her sharp questions. I don’t want to go too far down a gender reversal route, because I think it has limited value and doesn’t account for the nuances of social power dynamics.But unlike vampires, where the power imbalance is age gap between a hundred+ year old dude and a highschooler (predominantly! Filled with carriages, candlesticks, and corpses, Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match is the spooky-season reimagining of the well-known classic that reminds us to never judge a man by his cadaver! Honestly that alone should’ve probably been a clue, that such a new release was so readily available, from an author that had previously produced such a popular book. When her handsome scientific miracle sits up on the lab table, her hopes for an instant romantic connection are thrown into disarray.

It didn’t help that the emotional trajectories across the book a whole felt somewhat incoherent to me. I'm sorry, I genuinely thought I could suspend disbelief enough to find the quirky humor in this but its just too gross for me. What didn’t work for me here might be exactly the sort of thing that makes you go “wow, I really want to read that now”—and, frankly, I hope it does. If I didn't know it was written by Sally Thorne, I would have never guessed that it was-- it lacked all the spark and wit of The Hating Game.I staying up late to finish the novel, which features a new character, Victor Frankenstein's brilliant sister and partner in scientific experimentation, Angelika. I mean, yes, there’s a long cultural tradition of people making other people, for sex or science, or anything else, but … like. So they are building her one, because he’ll be so grateful she brought him back to life, saved him, that he’ll fall in love with her instantly.