Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match: A Novel

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I don’t want to go too far down a gender reversal route, because I think it has limited value and doesn’t account for the nuances of social power dynamics. All I felt for Will was pity that he woke up to such an outlandish environment, surrounded by strangers, with no memory of his true identity. Obviously, resurrecting someone for your personal gain is all kinds of morally wrong but this is a Frankenstein retelling so I digress.

It’s just I wish there’d been a context in which Angelika getting what she wanted didn’t involve explicitly robbing someone else of their agency, their bodily autonomy, and large swathes of their identity. There is no thought about those people being actual human beings and the ramifications of what this act could be.I just also say at this juncture that I have no issues with heroines (or characters in general) in romance who do bad things or need to learn how to be a less dreadful person. no like this made me so uncomfortable like the amount of time there were mentions of dicks and childish penis jokes you would’ve thought this shit was written by a man.

Sally Thorne’s voice is present and I found myself rereading passages that she wrote in such a peculiar and interesting way that I was hooked from the very beginning. Sure, the scene where they choose a guy because Angelika likes his face but another guy’s absolutely massive d*ck to mix ‘n’ match because haha, why settle for a mediocre one when you can have hung like a horse, the world is her oyster, am I right, is weird AF but the biggest problem for me was that Angelika and Will, her re-animated man with the monster penis, had zero chemistry. Another thing I've seen other reviewers complaining about is the element of religion in this book, being thrown in the plot like a life jacket. Or maybe I’m just a really unforgiving person and that’s something you should all bear in mind if you ever decide to blend me like a Spotify playlist and then animate my corpse to be your sextoy.I was expecting to be very bothered by this, but I guess my view is that the author was trying to make a point about allowing yourself to have your own convictions, and respecting other people's beliefs, and making space for the people you love and all that comes with them, even if you don't necessarily agree… which I get. Clever, pretty (and odd) Angelika Frankenstein has run out of suitors and fears she may become the exception to this family rule. But I didn't get on that until too late in the game, even though I tried to go in with an open mind knowing it had been not very well received with many mixed reviews. In this reimagining of the classic tale, our heroine, having run out of suitors willing to accept her modern ways, reanimates her ideal man (Will),.