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A review by amaranthpalmer
Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
2.0
I think people would have appreciated this book more if published 10 years ago, but now, the kind of anti-chauvinist feminism is dated. I understand the Wolstencraft-esc critique, thematically, but the languid misunderstanding of systemic oppression is tiresome.
The story was also okay, I most appreciated the retelling of the various papers and research. The plot was just fine, not at all suspenseful, but a set of pastoral quarrels that were supposed to foreshadow the sensational climax.
There are only recycled moral or ethical questions from the source material, and even those are poorly executed. In comparison to Frankenstein, the questions of life-giving, of blame, of redemption are defining. In this book, they’re a mere afterthought. Perhaps this is a consequence of avoiding the creature’s point of view.
The story was also okay, I most appreciated the retelling of the various papers and research. The plot was just fine, not at all suspenseful, but a set of pastoral quarrels that were supposed to foreshadow the sensational climax.
There are only recycled moral or ethical questions from the source material, and even those are poorly executed. In comparison to Frankenstein, the questions of life-giving, of blame, of redemption are defining. In this book, they’re a mere afterthought. Perhaps this is a consequence of avoiding the creature’s point of view.