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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

122 reviews

kelburke's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Murder, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Mental illness

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Animal death

fionnlister's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.75

im fucking bawling how dare you mary shelly 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment, Death, Incest, and Suicide

leapyear_reader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death, Murder, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Death of parent, Confinement, Blood, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, and Gore

Minor: Mental illness

leanne_miron's review against another edition

dark reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Incest and Xenophobia

linnylionheart's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Body shaming, Child death, Abandonment, Body horror, Confinement, Death of parent, Murder, Stalking, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Terminal illness

Minor: Gun violence, Suicide, Drug abuse, Blood, Animal death, Colonisation, and Forced institutionalization

Minor - execution of an innocent person

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, Abandonment, Murder, and Grief

Moderate: Incest

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

carina_dreamer's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-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

Review 🇵🇹🇬🇧

🧟‍♂️ Louvor à mãe do género da ficção científica e aos 19 anos ainda para mais! Mas para mim, foi monótono.

🧟‍♂️ Quem já leu clássicos reconhece a escrita bonita, poética e cheia de adjetivos, porém, certamente, também reconhecerá o típico protagonista em sofrimento e melancólico, perdido na sua desgraça ao ponto de... por isso (Spoilers)

🧟‍♂️ Eu não desgostei da história de vida do monstro (e aqui vai mais um mas) o seu desenvolvimento intelectual não fez sentido para mim. Ou o Frankenstein desenterrou o cérebro de um génio literário como é que ele conseguiu aprender a falar tão bem quanto o seu criador com apenas umas lições de ouvido e LENDO CLÁSSICOS? (num ano e meio/dois ele passou de não saber o que era fome e sede para ser tão bom como o seu mestre de certa forma).

🧟‍♂️ Eu nunca tinha sequer visto um filme e só conhecia as referências habituais (ao menos sabia que o Frankenstein era o criador 😂), o que tornou interessante descobrir a forma como a história é narrada e a quem.

(Há mais sobre o livro nos meus reels)
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👨🏻‍⚕️ I have to praise the mother of sci-fi at 19 years old. But for me, the story felt flat.

👨🏻‍⚕️ For those that read classics you will recognise the beautiful and poetic writing, full of adjectives, but, certainly, also the ruined and melancholic protagonist, consumed by his suffering to the point of... from it(Spoiler).

👨🏻‍⚕️ I didn't dislike the life story of the monster, but his intellectual development doesn't make sense. Or Frankenstein found the brain of literary genius how could he learn to talk like his maker just from hearing and READING CLASSICS? (in a year and half/two years he went from not knowing what hunger and thirst are to being, in a way, as good as his maker).

👨🏻‍⚕️ I never saw a film and only knew references (at least I knew Frankenstein was the doctor 😂), what made the story interesting was discovering how it was narrated and to whom.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Grief, Abandonment, Murder, and Death

bill369's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I read this book for the Classics Reading Challenge.

The complexity of Frankenstein's monster is hands down one of the best aspects of this book. I like his development and how he's becoming more human throughout the book. I believe the author did manage to make the reader feel for him. After all, he was just misunderstood and needed love.

Page 52, calm mind.
 

Dokonalý člověk má vždy zachovat klidnou a pokojnou mysl a nikdy nemá připustit, aby vášeň nebo pomíjivá touha porušily jeho pohodu. Ani vědecké bádání nemá být podle mého názoru výjimkou z tohoto pravidla. Jestliže studium, kterému se člověk věnuje, vede k oslabení přátelských vztahů a prostých radostí, v nichž nemá být ani stopa bolesti, pak je toto studium určitě nesprávné a pro lidskou mysl nevhodné.

 

I hoped for a happier ending, but it wasn't bad.

I'm glad I read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Medical content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Gun violence and Panic attacks/disorders

leonormsousa's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.5

TRIGGER WARNINGS 

 

child death, death, death of parent, murder, xenophobia, abandonment, grief, medical content, self-harm, suicide, and violence 

 

REPRESENTATION 

maybe queer MC (?)

REVIEW 

Like with most classics, I was pretty afraid of getting into Frankenstein. I knew how much this book means to Cláudia (from @hendrixsbookcorner) and that meant that I was putting extra pressure on myself to enjoy this book that is no less than one of the first science-fiction novels, written by a feminist bisexual women at the age of 18, who also happens to be the daughter of a renowned women’s rights activist (I mean, what a queen! How could I not already love her?!). So yeah… some expectation management had to be done and some courage had to be acquired but it was so freaking worth it! 

Frankenstein is one of those books that you don’t love while you’re reading it but that completely takes you once you’ve had the time to process it. It’s pretty slow paced (and a bit confusing) in the beginning (I was fearing for the worse!) but once it picks up, it gets you quite glued to the page as you uncover the story of both Frankenstein and his creation. 

It goes around the question of “who is the monster?”, playing with our empathy as we unravel the “creation”’s story. It’s a book on Man’s ambition and desire to “play god”, with no regard for the consequences of its actions nor courage to take responsibility for them. It’s also a book about loneliness and superficiality and obsession. 

There’s not really much more that I can say (or at least nothing good enough compared to the book). It’s daunting and haunting and really the absolute perfect choice if you’re looking for a recommendation for this time of the year. Not only does the monster theme perfectly fits the Halloween vibes, you also have a bit of a Dark Academia vibe that matches the fall season. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Abandonment, Child death, Death, Murder, Violence, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Suicide, and Xenophobia

shellyyy_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

bro, ti dico solo che la parte mia preferita è quando inizia il pov di frankestein.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Medical trauma, and Abandonment