Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match: A Novel

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If you can’t credit me with simply being a person who loves books and likes talking about them, at least credit me with enough common sense to be a better villain.

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. And her being like "you can't TELL me what to believe or not believe anymore, brother [because i ~believe now]! I staying up late to finish the novel, which features a new character, Victor Frankenstein's brilliant sister and partner in scientific experimentation, Angelika. She’s gonna need some therapy to find herself through all the men in her life, but I believe you can do it, Angelika!I just also say at this juncture that I have no issues with heroines (or characters in general) in romance who do bad things or need to learn how to be a less dreadful person. She desperately wants a husband and children, especially now that her brother is getting married and another woman will become mistress of the family home. Angelika was actually annoyed and frustrated quite frequently at how he repeatedly resisted her charms because he was focused on finding out where he came from.

It’s definitely the only book in a LONG TIME that has held me captive and I’ve been giddy to get to at the end of the day.They did evolve from their selfish, spoiled ways (Angelika much more so) but unfortunately I never truly liked Angelika or Victor enough to care what happened to them. The other man, Christopher, is supposed to represent everything that Will can't give Angelika (immediate availability, a stable job, a certainty of who he is and what he believes in, a past he actually remembers, the certain ability to have children, etc. 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. 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.

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.In that the sense that the various plot threads are resolved via an extremely literal deus ex machina. He is not a new person like Dr Frankenstein’s creation in the original text or Frank-N-Furter’s Rocky. 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. Maybe Angelika wouldn’t be a hot garbage person later on the book, but all I saw was “love triangle” and I noped the fuck out.

Jelly is the lonely, horny, enterprising heroine of my heart, Will is the most adorable love interest to ever grace a book, and then there's the plot, which is deliciously bonkers and utterly unique! 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. Let’s talk about Angelika Frankenstein but please, as ever, do be aware that my views are very subjective and I’m only speaking personally. She’s built the perfect lover, but dear reader please remember, you can never judge a man by his cadaver…. There is no thought about those people being actual human beings and the ramifications of what this act could be.This book takes two hard selling tropes: instalove (the MOST insta of insta loves,) and love triangle, and shifts it into this completely bizarre, quirky, romance book that somehow…works? I have no idea if this was meant to be sexy or funny or what, but it just came across incredibly strangely to me.