While Mary isfeisty andrecognises the extent of male privilege in those times, she is also kind and sympathetic. When we finally get to the construction of the creature, it feels like its existence is barely a blip in the story.

Frankenstein as a character is deeply unlikable, morally ambiguous and his descent into madness is fascinating to read about. And of course, many differentparts of the book only bring to light the higherbehaviouralstandards that were expected of women, as theywere expected to play the limited roles they assigned. But Mary, declared illegitimate by her family, and Henry, sort of disinherited from his, are in a continual struggle just to make ends meet. The author does a superb job of portraying the blood boiling way in which women were treated in 1850, especially while trying to work in a field that is dominated by men. An occasional scientific debate would be fun and interesting, but this book consisted of nothing but those debates.

Retellings andreimagining give us an opportunity to create space to use that window to include themes relevant today, and Charlie uses this to the fullest. He’s the go-to guy for such sensitive cases – his ex-girlfriend, now turned Titan, is the daughter of the man who discovered T7. With that expectation management, I think this is a close-to-perfect tale of science, women, and ethics.

Beautifully crafted story that is a kind of sequel to Frankenstein, set in the mid-Victorian period featuring an angry woman scientist stifled by her husband and society's patriarchal notions about women's intelligence.And the whole atmosphere and landscape of rural England in the mid-1800's, along with the poverty and squalor in the great cities. As the story progresses, the events that occur raise intelligent questions about the different between intention and invention, about thenature of science, and raise ethical considerations. It highlights the struggle for women to gain rightful credit in a society that favors the voices of men, especially in the fields of scientific discovery. In Victorian England, protagonist Mary discovers her great-uncle Victor Frankenstein’s life story in an old letter case. She has a great interest inpalaeontology, and is shown to be rather talented, but the fact that she is a woman in that time simply means that she has to live in the shadow of her husband Henry.

I also felt the prose was more simple than I'd have liked - so more of a fun adventure-style romp than anything more thoughtful, but entertaining. Fans of Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and historical horror with a queer feminist twist will not be disappointed. One of the ways it diverges from the classic is in Mary's reaction to her creation: where Victor Frankenstein showed abandonment, theprotagonist here grows to love the dependent creation that she pieced together to life.

The niece of Victor Frankenstein, she happens across a bundle of letters and notes left amongst the belongings of her late father; letters that speak of what happened to Victor, and what miraculously terrifying thing he was able to do, so many years before.