Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match: A Novel

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I shouldn’t have read this and now I truly need to just remember how much I love The Hating Game and ignore all that comes after. The premise of this one is intriguing - I wondered how the author could recast the dark Frankenstein story as a historical romance. Further disclaimer: Readers, please stop accusing me of trying to take down “my competition” because I wrote a review you didn’t like.

I'm definitely glad I gave it a chance because I do think Thorne has shown she can do more than just contemporary, and she can be weird, poke around into different spaces, and that's all good.Angelika reaaaaaaallllllyyyy loves Will and I found her changing a lot of herself once she gets to know him.

Clever, pretty (and odd) Angelika Frankenstein has run out of suitors and fears she may become the exception to this family rule. I didn’t even like the sound of this from the blurb but I was picking up some holds from my local library one day and I saw it sitting on the new release shelf. I struggled with quitting at certain points, but I wanted to see it through to the end to see if they would win me over.Angelika successfully brings back the perfect man, who she names Will and hopes will fall in love with her as quickly as she fell in love with him (before he even took his first breath). 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.

Yes, the gothic mansion was interesting, but you don't really get a dark or foreboding feeling from it. Ok, that’s not a thing you can actually do in publishing, but this was the book we’ve been waiting for and we want to shove it into everyone's hands. 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. It is her debut novel that has sold in over twenty-five countries and is being made into a major motion picture, directed by Peter Hutchings and starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell. However, I was quite disappointed with the romance aspect, and the characters did not endear me to them which left me wanting a lot more.

Take everything you've come to love in a Sally Thorne novel: witty banter, a sexy, toe-curling romance, and voice that pirouettes off the page, but add one part Tim Burton. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).

Of course, it’s also really well-written, there’s some wonderful moments of sexiness, banter and pathos, and I felt Sally Thorne adapted her voice super successfully to an irreverent histrom style. 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 Angelika is a romance heroine, not a horror villain, and I wish I’d had a better sense that both her, and the book as a whole, understood that re-shaping someone, then forcing them to live as your dependent in mental and physical torment (Will is explicitly in pain the whole book and his recovery of self-agency is represented largely by gardening) isn’t all that cute, no matter how disenfranchised or unloved you feel.