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devannm 's review for:
Frankissstein
by Jeanette Winterson
actual rating: 3.5
This was definitely a very interesting and unique book but I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about it. I think it did a lot of interesting stuff with bringing Frankenstein into the modern age and how the author wove gender and sexuality into the story and switched between Mary Shelley and the characters in the modern day was really great, but it was confusing at times as well. I think part of this is that the writing style didn't really mesh well with how I read. I read with word runner and would often not realize we had switched POV [it happens a LOT] and also I don't think she used quotation marks for speech at all which makes it hard to know who is talking some of the time and also whether the character is saying something out loud or just thinking it. Also I wanted to strangle the guy who made the sexbots every time he opened his mouth but I think that was the intended reaction so good job there. But it was definitely an original book and really made me think while I was reading it so I decided to round up.
This was definitely a very interesting and unique book but I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about it. I think it did a lot of interesting stuff with bringing Frankenstein into the modern age and how the author wove gender and sexuality into the story and switched between Mary Shelley and the characters in the modern day was really great, but it was confusing at times as well. I think part of this is that the writing style didn't really mesh well with how I read. I read with word runner and would often not realize we had switched POV [it happens a LOT] and also I don't think she used quotation marks for speech at all which makes it hard to know who is talking some of the time and also whether the character is saying something out loud or just thinking it. Also I wanted to strangle the guy who made the sexbots every time he opened his mouth but I think that was the intended reaction so good job there. But it was definitely an original book and really made me think while I was reading it so I decided to round up.