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razmatesz's review
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
khaufnaak's review against another edition
4.0
I read this over four months, so I don’t exactly remember my experiences along the entire journey. In the beginning I disliked the writing slightly, because it reminded me of the sad philosophizing of a teenage girl on Wattpad. Which I guess would make sense considering that perhaps a remarkable number of teenage girls on Wattpad have emotionally incestuous relationships with their fathers.
I actually do like this book. I think it captures early on a young girl’s experiences with a childhood of emotional neglect. When she has a good time with her father, you actually feel happy for her and can authentically connect with the joy it brings her. This book has no actual incest and is not sexually explicit at all. I think it’s an expression of what emotional incest must be like.
Mathilda’s saga with Woodville is I think when we see some of Mary Shelley’s best writing for this book. I think it really encapsulates the richness of this beautiful love, how it feels for Mathilda to feel her own love and that love which Woodville expresses for her. Woodville is very much a perfect emotionally intelligent type of character.
Overall a pretty good book. It expresses a lot of pain and suffering and also later this kind of restrained but rich love. It’s also very dark, even though there isn’t any physical incest, the disgust and sadness that was invoked in me while reading this was overwhelming. Mathilda loves her father greatly, but is violated and pained by his confession of incestuous love for her. It’s terrifying.
I actually do like this book. I think it captures early on a young girl’s experiences with a childhood of emotional neglect. When she has a good time with her father, you actually feel happy for her and can authentically connect with the joy it brings her. This book has no actual incest and is not sexually explicit at all. I think it’s an expression of what emotional incest must be like.
Mathilda’s saga with Woodville is I think when we see some of Mary Shelley’s best writing for this book. I think it really encapsulates the richness of this beautiful love, how it feels for Mathilda to feel her own love and that love which Woodville expresses for her. Woodville is very much a perfect emotionally intelligent type of character.
Overall a pretty good book. It expresses a lot of pain and suffering and also later this kind of restrained but rich love. It’s also very dark, even though there isn’t any physical incest, the disgust and sadness that was invoked in me while reading this was overwhelming. Mathilda loves her father greatly, but is violated and pained by his confession of incestuous love for her. It’s terrifying.
hauntingofalice's review against another edition
dark
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
coughdrops's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.75
charlize14's review
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
daynightly's review
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
lisas_library_factory's review
4.0
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
I kicked of my reading for #SpookySeason with the short novella "Matilda" by Mary Shelley.
#Shelley is an author I always wanted to explore as I am very intrigued by her biography and the fact that she wrote one of the greatest masterpieces of literature at the young age of 18 years.
However, I was never really in the right mindset to commit to it , so this October I want to change that and plan on reading #Frankenstein later in the month.
This story was not what I expected. I thought it would be similar to Frankenstein in themes and suspense. However, it deeply moved me and sometimes gave me a heavy heart. You can definitively see in those lines the sorrow, greave and depression Shelley put in this work, after she just lost her child.
So, I guess this is a good start into Shelley's work, however, be prepared for a very dark and emotional tale.
I kicked of my reading for #SpookySeason with the short novella "Matilda" by Mary Shelley.
#Shelley is an author I always wanted to explore as I am very intrigued by her biography and the fact that she wrote one of the greatest masterpieces of literature at the young age of 18 years.
However, I was never really in the right mindset to commit to it , so this October I want to change that and plan on reading #Frankenstein later in the month.
This story was not what I expected. I thought it would be similar to Frankenstein in themes and suspense. However, it deeply moved me and sometimes gave me a heavy heart. You can definitively see in those lines the sorrow, greave and depression Shelley put in this work, after she just lost her child.
So, I guess this is a good start into Shelley's work, however, be prepared for a very dark and emotional tale.
ljacks60's review
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
fast-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
3.0
What a strange little book
merel24's review against another edition
2.0
Ik dacht, dat het Matilda was, van de film.
Ik was erg teleurgesteld, dat het heel anders is.
Ik vind het wel mooi romantisch geschreven.
Helaas is dan het nadeel, dat het betekend, *spoiler*
dat er veel sterfgevallen zijn.
Ik was erg teleurgesteld, dat het heel anders is.
Ik vind het wel mooi romantisch geschreven.
Helaas is dan het nadeel, dat het betekend, *spoiler*
dat er veel sterfgevallen zijn.
mil4's review
dark
emotional
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
4.25