Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match: A Novel

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I staying up late to finish the novel, which features a new character, Victor Frankenstein's brilliant sister and partner in scientific experimentation, Angelika. And her being like "you can't TELL me what to believe or not believe anymore, brother [because i ~believe now]! 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. Jelly is the lonely, horny, enterprising heroine of my heart, Will is the most adorable love interest to ever grace a book, and then there's the plot, which is deliciously bonkers and utterly unique! sally thorne has lost her touch and will never be about to replicate the success of the hating game i fear.

And I’m aware it feels like a loaded compliment to describe a book as “risk” but there’s an extravagantly weirdness about Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match that may not pay off for all readers. There are some lovely scenes between Will and Angelika, both sexual and romantic, but they never felt like they were building upon each other so much as strung or, well, sewn together Frankenstein’s monster style.It's massively obvious who she would end up with and honestly, both dudes aren't well developed enough for you to care one way or the other. It gave me Bridgerton meets The Addams Family vibes - a little bit spooky, a little sweet, with a wonderful, loving cast of friends and a creative, heartwarming romance that kept me on edge right up until the very end. But when a second suitor emerges to aid their quest, Angelika wonders if she was too hasty inventing a solution. I had high hopes for this book, though I knew going in that it was a quirky concept that may not hit the mark for me. If feels as if she is being left behind all alone, with no partner to share her privileged life with.

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.

all of this was cloaked in decent writing and as a result i didn't fully realize how ridiculous the plot was until i explained it out loud to someone. I've reread it a million times, and when I started this book, I felt echoes of Tom Valeska and Darcy Barrett in Will and Angelika (crazy devotion and longing, insane sexual tension, etc.