Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match A Novel

Waste of time. Do not read

Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match was a book I found on clearance at Homesense & Marshalls. I adore that store because they get random books I've never heard of but look and read to be SO GOOD. The cover and title alone was intriguing, but then reading the synopsis sealed the deal. I needed to read this book. This is an intertext of the famous Frankenstein book with a really interesting twist. Angelika is a member of the Frankenstein family. All of them have found true love and their soulmate which makes their life perfect. Angelika hasn't been too lucky with her suitors. She has a very scientific approach to match making which seems to scare all of those men off. Lucky for her, Victor, her brother, and Angelika are working on a very special project.... re-animating a man after sewing pieces together from different men. The project works and an incredible handsome man comes back to life on the lab table. Angelika hopes this is her true love, but things start to spiral out of control which may affect her suitor's availability. He wants to find out who he was before he woke up as Frankenstein's monster. Ups and downs, bumps, hills and valleys, this story is going to give you a pinch of mystery, a dash of science, and a potential for romance. I'm not gonna lie, this was one of the weirdest takes on this story but it works! It's a genuinely fun retelling that puts enough of a spin on it that it doesn't feel like the book is rehashing the same old Frankenstein story. There's so many additions to this tale that will even have you forgetting it's based on Frankenstein at all by the end of it. It has a Tim Burton or The Addams Family like vibe, a sitcom like feel, and it just a great read if you want to slink away into another world. It's so wild, so absurd, so odd... it's fantastic! I highly recommend this New Adult book if you love romance, intertexts, or creative spins on classic tales. The book definitely has some quirks and I can see people not enjoying it since it's a romance focusing on romancing a dead body, but hey. Books can be weird. Just maybe don't take it too seriously? Four out of five stars.

A bit bland. Vibes not a great plot.

Weird and whimsical, saying that as a compliment. I loved the unexpected (to me) mystery aspect and subsequent investigation and also that it wasn’t too dark compared to the original Frankenstein inspiration but still high-ish stakes. Quite a fun and charming read that I kept looking forward to returning to.

Take whatever you thought you knew about Sally Thorne and throw it out the window. It was so unlike anything she's written before. It was so strange and Tim Burton-esque. Frankenstein is one of my favorite classics, so I was interested to see how Thorne would put her spin on it, but it didn't quite work for me. Angelika and Victor left such a bad taste in my mouth. I thought they were too arrogant and obnoxious. Also, I didn't love the relationship between Angelika and Will. It wasn't believable, and I felt zero chemistry between them. I felt bad for Will and everything the Frankensteins put him through. Romance aside, I couldn't get behind the plot. If you can suspend your disbelief for 384-pages then maybe it would be a fun Halloween-y read, but it wasn't for me.

BOOK REVIEW

Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match / Sally Thorne

Rating ⭐️⭐️

Sally Thorne is an auto buy author for me, with the Hating Game being one of my all time fave books, so I was stoked when I got a #gifted copy from Hachette of her new release 🥰

the beginning of it was intriguing and had great promise but unfortunately throughout the story I lost interest and found certain parts of it too absurd for me. it’s a retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, however, this one involves resurrecting people in the hopes of creating the perfect match for Angelika.

I did really enjoy seeing Angelika’s character growth, she learnt a lot from her creation, and it was inspiring to see the changes she made to her behaviour. some of the themes in the book felt a bit unnecessary, or overdone, and it made the middle part of the book quite slow paced and overall the ending felt very anticlimactic.

I think if you’ve loved Sally Thorne’s other works and are up for something a little out of the ordinary, you may enjoy this one more than I did ✨