Review: My Frankenstein
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 4, 2012
It has been a very long time since I've read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and I read it twice. Once in middle school, for fun, and once in high school because we had to. I remember loving it and that it's my favorite version of Frankenstein followed by Young Frankenstein staring Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle, and because of that movie every time I see the name Igor I pronounce it "eye-gore".  Most other versions are just really bland or trying to go off into weird places.I haven't decided if this is young adult or not it's verging on not mostly because there is sex, though it isn't described Eva just disrobes and they have sex, there's no description of it so...I don't know the rest feels very young adult. I did like this book it is a dark tale and the spirit of the original Frankenstein novel is in this book. I think Dr. Frankenstein is a bit more dark and jerk-like and Igor is a much more rounded character in this story. It's hard not to think of the orginal when reading this, mostly because a lot of what happens ins alluded to, you don't know FOR SURE that these wagons that are being carted around are full of dead bodies, you assume that's what Rolfe is made of. But of course you know that already, before the 'big reveal' so it's hard to really get into that mystery aspect of the book, because you already know the secrets. Eva's relationship with Adam is great, mostly MILD SPOILER START I mean once she finds out he's an amalgam of dead dudes and she still has the sex with him, it's kind of gross...but whatever. END SPOILER. Overall the book is an entertaining retelling of a classic, but it's not as good.