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A review by fioni
Mathilda by Mary Shelley
dark
emotional
reflective
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
mary motherfucking shelley!!!
i would like to marry this woman's prose. i would read her shopping list.
"In truth I am in love with death; no maiden ever took more pleasure in the contemplation of her bridal attire than I in fancying my limbs already enwrapt in their shroud: is it not my marriage dress?"
this book was not what i expected. i only knew about the incest plot, and thought it was going to be terribly disgusting. i did not expect the nose dive into depression and suicide. it was delightful. it's rare for me to relate to a narrator / main character this much (never mind what this says about me), and here, especially in the last few chapters, every other paragraph gutted me like a fish.
i would like to marry this woman's prose. i would read her shopping list.
"In truth I am in love with death; no maiden ever took more pleasure in the contemplation of her bridal attire than I in fancying my limbs already enwrapt in their shroud: is it not my marriage dress?"
this book was not what i expected. i only knew about the incest plot, and thought it was going to be terribly disgusting. i did not expect the nose dive into depression and suicide. it was delightful. it's rare for me to relate to a narrator / main character this much (never mind what this says about me), and here, especially in the last few chapters, every other paragraph gutted me like a fish.