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Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne
5.0
What if Frankenstein was a romance novel? Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match is a Frankenstein-retelling with the romance of Bridgerton and the eccentric excess of the Addams Family… and it’s just as amazing as it sounds.
The Frankenstein siblings are both stunningly beautiful (with honey-red hair and pretty green eyes à la Simon Woods in Pride & Prejudice), horribly wealthy, and terribly intelligent. Orphaned as teens and isolated in a grand gothic manor house in the English countryside with a single servant and unseemly deep coffers, there’s nothing to temper the eccentric siblings. Angelika spends in wild excess without thought and Victor is obsessed with taking the scientific world by storm with his reanimation experiments.
Angelika has been raised by her brother to be his perfect assistant, with her clever mind and talent for sewing tiny neat stitches on the cadavers used for his experiments, but she finds herself wanting something of her own. Someone. All her beauty and generous use of family wealth have not been enough to get suitors to overlook her… oddness. At the advanced age of 24, her loneliness drives her to undertake her own experiment – assembling and reanimating her perfect man. From there it’s as simple as getting him to fall in love with her, which she’s sure he will while she takes excellent care of him.
Angelika and Victor are not bad people in this. They are spoiled though, and thoughtless. Angelika just wants to be loved; she doesn’t even give a thought to her reanimated man having a past and a mind of his own. She’s completely thrown when her would-be lover, Will, is more focused on regaining his memory and returning to his old life than falling in line with her plans for him. Not that Will’s blind to her charms, he would have to be dead (again) to resist her beauty, charm, and wit – and perhaps not even then.
Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match is one of the most unique historical romance novels I’ve ever read and one I can see myself returning to again and again. The characters are morally grey, but they have good hearts and they do learn and grow and become better people. The banter is witty and charming and at times laugh out loud funny. You don’t have to be a lover of dark academia aesthetic and gothic romance to enjoy this, but if you are this one is definitely for you. The love story between a lonely spoiled heiress and her patched-together beau might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it was 100% mine.
*Thank you to the publishers for a review copy
The Frankenstein siblings are both stunningly beautiful (with honey-red hair and pretty green eyes à la Simon Woods in Pride & Prejudice), horribly wealthy, and terribly intelligent. Orphaned as teens and isolated in a grand gothic manor house in the English countryside with a single servant and unseemly deep coffers, there’s nothing to temper the eccentric siblings. Angelika spends in wild excess without thought and Victor is obsessed with taking the scientific world by storm with his reanimation experiments.
Angelika has been raised by her brother to be his perfect assistant, with her clever mind and talent for sewing tiny neat stitches on the cadavers used for his experiments, but she finds herself wanting something of her own. Someone. All her beauty and generous use of family wealth have not been enough to get suitors to overlook her… oddness. At the advanced age of 24, her loneliness drives her to undertake her own experiment – assembling and reanimating her perfect man. From there it’s as simple as getting him to fall in love with her, which she’s sure he will while she takes excellent care of him.
Angelika and Victor are not bad people in this. They are spoiled though, and thoughtless. Angelika just wants to be loved; she doesn’t even give a thought to her reanimated man having a past and a mind of his own. She’s completely thrown when her would-be lover, Will, is more focused on regaining his memory and returning to his old life than falling in line with her plans for him. Not that Will’s blind to her charms, he would have to be dead (again) to resist her beauty, charm, and wit – and perhaps not even then.
Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match is one of the most unique historical romance novels I’ve ever read and one I can see myself returning to again and again. The characters are morally grey, but they have good hearts and they do learn and grow and become better people. The banter is witty and charming and at times laugh out loud funny. You don’t have to be a lover of dark academia aesthetic and gothic romance to enjoy this, but if you are this one is definitely for you. The love story between a lonely spoiled heiress and her patched-together beau might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it was 100% mine.
*Thank you to the publishers for a review copy