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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

61 reviews

gossamer_lens's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

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I find it hard to describe what I dislike about this book. Which is a rarity. I find the themes handled compelling, I find it being the birth place of science fiction amazing and wonderful. The characters have a sense of depth that is quite good and moves one to emotion while reading. Overall, I guess my issue is that while it tackles such interesting things, being the first of its kind means there are so many who have handled the same things since and done it in more interesting, compelling, and poignant ways. But with that being said, this book cannot be discredited for being a start to something amazing and for how well it handles itself considering. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder

mimidelrey's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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really enjoyed, truly terrifying, Gothic, and great use of Romantic themes. Love the Frankenstein and Prometheus parallels. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Classism

Moderate: Incest, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Torture

kezatron's review against another edition

2.75

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Victor sucks so much it’s not even funny.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse

Minor: Stalking

justiceforplutoo's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Main character was insufferable. (He's just like me)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Incest, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury

Depending on which edition of the book you have, there may or may not be incest. Mary Shelley edited the 1831 edition to work around the incest, but two characters still call each other "cousin" as a friendly term. I picked "medical trama" because there wasn't a tag for "I created a monster and now I can't use the medical instruments without feeling immense guilt." I also chose "panic attacks" because I think that's what was going on with Victor for most of the book; they just didn't have that terminology in the 1800s. Period-Typical Misogyny; if you read classics often, I don't think it'll affect you much.

Towards the end of the book, Victor begins having serious suicidal thoughts, and his sickness leads to his death. At the end of the book, the creature actually does vow to kill himself with fire out of guilt of how his actions affected Victor.

lolab24's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Abandonment

Minor: Suicide, Violence, Stalking

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The first time I read this book, I was a sophomore in high school, and this was one of the few assigned readings that I actually completed. This is my first reread of the novel—fifteen years later—and I can now say that it still ranks highly among my favorite classic novels! I enjoyed following the incredible/unbelievable journeys of the three narrators, and I can now much better appreciate the Romantic, Gothic, and Transcendentalist elements that Shelley uses to weave her narratives. I think I’ll always be blown away by what Shelley accomplished as a woman of her time and how much of herself she puts into her work. I don’t believe I have anything new under the sun to say about Frankenstein. All I can say is that it truly does live up to the bar against which it is set.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

bethanwx's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A classic gothic novel about the dangers of over-reaching. Whilst I appreciate that this is a significant text, I don't warm to the writing style or characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Murder, Abandonment

Moderate: Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Colonisation

Minor: Death of parent

biobeetle's review against another edition

2.5

dark reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder

ekgranstro's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

womangenius's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization