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A review by sapphire_mayo
Such Wicked Intent by Kenneth Oppel
4.0
I will start this review off with the last thoughts I had at the exact moment I finished this book: "He never fucking learns!" Victor Frankenstein is my favorite hate-able character. He is such a dickhead and so power-hungry and arrogant it is the most frustrating thing in the world to watch him self-destruct (as well as bringing out the worst in everyone around him at the same time).
This book is spent split between the living world and that of the dead, where his twin brother Konrad and other beings dwell. There, Victor and his friends who are close enough to be family, look for a way to bring Konrad back to life.
We get to see obsession and desperation take root in our main characters, and how those desperations cause conflict between them all. It was super fast paced and never dull, I had a lot of moments when I had to close the book and allow myself to breathe.
I will say there is a scene where we see what looks like an attempted rape, so trigger-warning for that.
This book is spent split between the living world and that of the dead, where his twin brother Konrad and other beings dwell. There, Victor and his friends who are close enough to be family, look for a way to bring Konrad back to life.
We get to see obsession and desperation take root in our main characters, and how those desperations cause conflict between them all. It was super fast paced and never dull, I had a lot of moments when I had to close the book and allow myself to breathe.
I will say there is a scene where we see what looks like an attempted rape, so trigger-warning for that.