This was my classic for 2025. And it was not at all what I thought it was!! I always thought this story was about the Making of the Monster. But nope, the monster is created pretty much in the first several pages. The rest? Oh, the regret and the terror and the chase!!! As you'd expect, the verbiage here is appropriate to the times, and it seems so dramatic to the modern eye/ear. But I can see why this caused such a stir - her age, the subject matter, the gore! As a reader, I did not know with whom my sympathies lay. Interesting!!
[Beware, my daughter and I (no, the younger one!!) watched the new adaptation with Oscar Issac over the holidays, and it was SO GORY! I love Oscar but this movie was not really like the book - but did redeem itself in the end. But we almost turned it off twice.]
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