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A review by alyvia_rw
This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel
2.0
I like to read stupid and sometimes bad books. I picked this one up because I saw it when searching “frankenstein” to put the actual book on my shelf and figured that this would be a funny read. It wasn’t.
I didn’t expect it to be somewhat problematic in the romance. Not only is it between two brothers fighting over their cousin who was raised as their sister, but victor has no respect for elizabeth’s boundaries. He kisses her without consent, insists he knows better about her feelings than she does, and even says that he will “make elizabeth his” someday. Yet I’m supposed to want them to be together?
Also, I haven’t forgotten how the author pulled the whole “yeah we’re a rich family but we’re a good one. We treat our servants nicely. We even cook them dinner sometimes!!” thing at the beginning of the book. I couldn’t decide whether that made me want to laugh or die.
Besides all that, it was just pretty boring. There were things that could have been interesting, but weren’t. Then again, I don’t know what I expected.
I didn’t expect it to be somewhat problematic in the romance. Not only is it between two brothers fighting over their cousin who was raised as their sister, but victor has no respect for elizabeth’s boundaries. He kisses her without consent, insists he knows better about her feelings than she does, and even says that he will “make elizabeth his” someday. Yet I’m supposed to want them to be together?
Also, I haven’t forgotten how the author pulled the whole “yeah we’re a rich family but we’re a good one. We treat our servants nicely. We even cook them dinner sometimes!!” thing at the beginning of the book. I couldn’t decide whether that made me want to laugh or die.
Besides all that, it was just pretty boring. There were things that could have been interesting, but weren’t. Then again, I don’t know what I expected.