Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match: A Novel

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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. There's a pleasing surprise near the end, and a note of respect to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of the original Frankenstein, a woman who, like the fictionaL Angelika, didn't always get the recognition she deserved.

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.it's like if sally thorne took the smurf subplot we all pretend didn't exist in the hating game and decided yes, an entire book should have this energy. He’s even possibly married because he was wearing a ring on his finger (but his hands are on someone else now, haha!

For many generations, the great Frankenstein blood line has found their true love, confidant, soulmate, and.Loosely inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the basic premise of Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match is that Angelika and her brother Victor Frankenstein are a pair of wealthy, hyper-privileged Regency orphans. 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 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. The book opens as Angelika and Victor are browsing a room of dead bodies for their personal science experiments.

Angelika’s older brother who is constantly chomping on apples, puffing up his own chest, and evading the pig that is in love with him, was probably my favorite character. 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. 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. Who doesn’t root for a heroine whose value isn’t recognised by her society and who hasn’t, at some point, thought life would be infinitely easier, if we couldn’t just build ourselves a custom partner from bits of dead people. All I felt for Will was pity that he woke up to such an outlandish environment, surrounded by strangers, with no memory of his true identity.I just couldn't get past that and no amount of quippy, regency dialogue or burning glances exchanged with reanimated corpses was able to help.

The only thing on his mind was fame and glory as he blithely cracked jokes with his sister about her own mission-building her dream man out of corpses. I don’t want it to come across that I am excessively condemning Angelika for doing the very thing that men have been doing in fiction literally since before Jesus. I loved how authentic he felt as a character even though the way he spoke and really everything about what he said did not fit into the historical time period at all. 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.I didn't need to read page after page of Angelika being like, "Well, I can't deny this guy is handsome and could give me everything I want and also that I really like him. You could argue that it’s Victorian England, everyone was pretty religious, the Church was a big thing etc but it’s made very clear that the siblings, especially Victor, shun all that and they are modern and believe in science. Or maybe I’m just a really unforgiving person and that’s something you should all bear in mind if you ever decide to blend me like a Spotify playlist and then animate my corpse to be your sextoy.