thiccadonna 's review for:

Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill

4.25

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This book not only provides such a perfect, detailed description of the britain of the 1850s as a boiling pressure cooker of scientific advances but it also stews and revels in the absolute rage of the downtrodden at the time, giving voice to the imperfect women who longed to make their mark, whose curiosity and thirst for knowledge and recognition, whose ambition made them strange, offputting, MONSTROUS by that society's standards. It manages to pay its homages to the original Frankenstein, inheriting that very gothic dna, while still doing its own thing and being a real ode to destructive, relentless, unabashed female rage. let us be monsters together!