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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

3.86 AVERAGE

jenniferfryxell's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book is not a gory horror book.

hannahjonelle's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

adamreadssomebooks's review against another edition

5.0

Funny how the Monster had the most beautiful and wretched of spirits in the novel. Shelley also suggests that hate and love share a similarity of binding one into an unsatisfiable contract with another. Hints of fatality being the closing act to this honour bound linkage between people. However, as the Monster intends to immolate his form and leave his ashes to the whims of the wind, he leaves his spirit to posses posterity.

“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows, and a chance word of scene that that word may convey to us.”

A release from the accursed physical form and a return to the sublime natural world that sparks our hearts alight.