Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match: A Novel

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The two siblings live together in Blackthorne Manor, a huge house owned by the Frankenstein family for generations, just outside Salisbury village. And I’m aware it feels like a loaded compliment to describe a book as “risk” but there’s an extravagantly weirdness about Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match that may not pay off for all readers. 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! She’s built the perfect lover, but dear reader please remember, you can never judge a man by his cadaver….

Secondly, I only publish reviews of books in the subgenre where I’m best known (queer romcom) if they’re glowing.Obviously, resurrecting someone for your personal gain is all kinds of morally wrong but this is a Frankenstein retelling so I digress.

Trying to ignore their heart-pounding chemistry, Angelika reluctantly joins the investigation into his past, hoping it will bring them closer. Even the possibility that Will could have been engaged before he died only caused a tiny sliver of guilt as she continued to pursue his affections. Another big issue I had was that this was supposed to be a historical book, and these characters came off as completely modern, progressive people who were transplanted in the past just for atmosphere's sake. 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 .There is a line towards the end, direct quote: "You are in the bed of a spoiled, wealthy heiress who has realized her privileged position and will work for the rest of her life to deserve you. It's massively obvious who she would end up with and honestly, both dudes aren't well developed enough for you to care one way or the other. All the praying and the like at the end, felt like being lectured, like only through this action and by accepting religion and the like, could they get what they all truly want, etc.

It's not like there was a shortage of plot to be explored, especially with Will's mysterious background waiting to be uncovered. I was expecting to be very bothered by this, but I guess my view is that the author was trying to make a point about allowing yourself to have your own convictions, and respecting other people's beliefs, and making space for the people you love and all that comes with them, even if you don't necessarily agree… which I get. Angelika reaaaaaaallllllyyyy loves Will and I found her changing a lot of herself once she gets to know him. 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.this time the power imbalance -- wealthy spoiled woman, undead nobody with no memory, heavily reliant on said wealthy woman -- is also layered with consent issues because he literally had no say with a) coming back to life and b) the parts of his body she kept or replaced. For many generations, the great Frankenstein blood line has found their true love, confidant, soulmate, and. Will talks about leaving, about finding out who he was, constantly (he is re-animated with no memory of his former self) and all Angelika can think about is how she’ll be so sad when he leaves even though she’s known him five minutes and dude is a blank slate, because as I mentioned, no memory.

But unlike vampires, where the power imbalance is age gap between a hundred+ year old dude and a highschooler (predominantly! Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match may be one of the weirdest mish mash of books I have read in a long, long time. Angelika does, eventually, spot a corpse she feels is attractive, but she ends up deciding the man in question would be even more satisfying to her if he had a more muscular chest and a bigger dick. However, at about the 50% mark the book becomes overrun with religious overtones, even making the love interest a Priest. Which is, on the one hand, fair enough maybe, and I’m absolutely not saying it’s not okay for women (real or fictional) to have preferences for particular body types or physical attributes.Another thing I've seen other reviewers complaining about is the element of religion in this book, being thrown in the plot like a life jacket. Believe me, I have not enjoyed many an excellent book, and my individual lack of enjoyment has not made any of those books less excellent or (more relevantly) less successful.