Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Frankenstein (Collins Classics) by Mary Shelley

187 reviews

fujo_cat's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

When I picked up this one, I wasn't expecting getting emotional and teary-eyed... And yet here we are. Only existencial horror to be found here, fellas. 
I'm glad I finally finished one more classic read, yay~!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, and Death of parent

emory's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

seems long and drawn out and is a far shot from what I was expecting due to the distortion of its resonance in popular culture, but eloquent and deserving of its place in not only horror but overall classic literature. very mesmerizing writing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Sexism, Stalking, and Colonisation

Minor: Animal death, Genocide, Racism, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

kingcrookback's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

Somehow, in all my years of hearing about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and having friends who really enjoy the novel, I never knew that this was an epistolary novel. But in any case, being an epistolary novel, it's an excellent exercise in detecting and questioning the narrators' unreliability and biases in their storytelling.

I don't have much to say regarding whether I think this was "good." Of course it's good. It's an enduring and oft-discussed classic for a reason, and that reason isn't merely the fact that it's the first science fiction novel or that it was written by a woman. It's a fascinating and complex study of hubris, humanity, and obsession. Being the person that I am, I really fixated on the themes of humanity that Shelley spins around the Creature--specifically how the Creature's descent into immorality aligns not with his physical monstrosity/deformity/disfigurement (as tends to be the case with monsters and villains with deformities/disfigurements) but rather with the internalization of his lived experiences. (In this vein, I also found it fascinating to put Frankenstein in conversation with Richard III, where Richard's disability/deformity is meant to be read as a physical manifestation of immorality.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Death of parent

parisreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Islamophobia

tanisha_112's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Death of parent

marinasslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Proof that "books written by women" was  true even 200 years ago

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder

alexandra_skl's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A wonderful example of a gothic/ romanticism novel. The breathtaking descriptions of nature contrasted with the horror of the Frankenstein’s creation make this a fascinating novel

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

cornustella's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Death of parent

vinsynt's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

ashley_1206's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

guys i finally finished this book and i didn’t mind it. it was a story inside of a story. am i going to have to do a lot of research for my summer work? yes but i don’t mind. bonus points for short chapters!

it was really hard to get into during the beginning but the middle and the end flew by! it’s like a science fiction. i definitely wasn’t scared or got any chills so i don’t call it a ghost story. almost everything was predictable but yeah. the story was good but since it’s a classic it had a lot of words.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder