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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
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Classism
Minor: Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Islamophobia, Murder
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment
Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Confinement, Gun violence, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Violence, Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse
Minor: Stalking
The story is an interesting premise, to be sure, but I’m pretty sure I could find something to dislike about literally every character. Victor, of course, is just a selfish and whiny rich boy and all his friends and family indulge him way too much. The monster’s story is very interesting and you can sympathize with him to an extent, but he’s still done unforgivable things. At the end of the story, Walton says it best: “Hypocritical fiend!” That’s what the monster is. He’s really eloquent and interesting, though, so a wonderful read. At least, his parts are. Other parts of the story are a slog. Pages of Victor bemoaning the consequences of his own actions and pages of entirely unneeded traveling descriptions.
Also, the bonus chapter by C. T. Francis (could not figure out who that was) that this edition has? What… What was up with that? It was such a jarring shift. I was incredulous reading that “What-if” epilogue. Thank goodness that isn’t canon. Oh, also, Francis seems to have forgotten the fact that the monster burned down the cottage but that’s really secondary to SANTA
Moderate: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment
Minor: Death of parent
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Stalking, Murder, Dysphoria
Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Dysphoria
Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent
Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment
Moderate: Violence, Murder
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death of parent