Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

148 reviews

garmiet's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Classism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Kidnapping, Abortion, Death of parent

maysonia's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Abandonment

Moderate: Chronic illness, Gore, Grief, Stalking

Minor: Child death, Incest

ugly_neko's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A brilliant masterpiece of feminist literature.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Murder

Minor: Animal death

mxine_'s review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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rip frankenstein's monster you would have loved radiohead

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Dysphoria

bronz_dan's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

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Classic story of man’s arrogance leading to doom from lack of humanity. Created a genre and is still relevant today. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Death of parent

kirawantstoread's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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One of my all-time favorite novels and my first exposure to the frame narrative. Extremely tragic and much more harrowing than I was anticipating when I read this as a high school sophomore. After finishing, my favorite type of villainous character became one who was done unbelievably dirty by the protag. Kudos to 19-year-old Mary Shelley for cranking this one out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment

starfr0g's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Stalking, Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Incest, Violence, Murder

Minor: Medical content

egganimates's review against another edition

3.0

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder

Minor: Incest, Medical content, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail

drawa_sheep's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

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Victor Frankenstein is someone I would not like to spend time with. I didn’t like him at all. The monster has a way better personality.

The book can feel very slow sometimes, like listening to someone recount their dream to you (not in a good way!). 

The parts from the point of view of the monster are the most fun. Having seen the movie Poor Things, I was pleasantly surprised to see the similarities between Bella’s dialogue and the way the monster speaks/reasons. I knew the movie was inspired by the book, but reading it gave me a deeper appreciation for Poor Things (I didn’t like that movie much either, for the record, but still). 

Now that I’ve read this book, I can better appreciate its iterations in pop culture- it was a quick enough read, but won’t ever re-read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Stalking, Murder

there’s stalking, strangulation, murder - nothing too detailed but lots of sad depressions too

typedtruths's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Grief

Moderate: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Stalking, Murder

Minor: Animal death, Body horror