Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match: A Novel

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Other than mentions of them riding in a carriage or a description of Angelika's old-fashioned undergarments, it was lacking the multitude of small details that come together to form a true, authentic atmosphere. I got about halfway through and didn't care for the characters, the story, or how the book would resolve so I didn't finish. Even the possibility that Will could have been engaged before he died only caused a tiny sliver of guilt as she continued to pursue his affections. Angelika has failed to meet her perfect match despite the fact that she is possession of the two things that draw men in like bees to honey. 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!

Who doesn’t root for a heroine whose value isn’t recognised by her society and who hasn’t, at some point, thought life would be infinitely easier, if we couldn’t just build ourselves a custom partner from bits of dead people. Her resurrected beau (named Will for the moment) has total amnesia and is solely focused on uncovering his true identity. In this reimagining of the classic tale, our heroine, having run out of suitors willing to accept her modern ways, reanimates her ideal man (Will),.I shouldn’t have read this and now I truly need to just remember how much I love The Hating Game and ignore all that comes after. I don’t want it to come across that I am excessively condemning Angelika for doing the very thing that men have been doing in fiction literally since before Jesus.

Will is certainly a devoted romance hero (to the extent he’s telling a woman he’s in awe of everything she is a day or two after she’s non-consensually regrafted his penis) so he might hit the spot for people who particularly enjoy those kind of dynamics between protagonists. 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.

Take everything you've come to love in a Sally Thorne novel: witty banter, a sexy, toe-curling romance, and voice that pirouettes off the page, but add one part Tim Burton. It's hard to explain but him being hot and cold was fine, I just thought there were some inconsistencies mixed in, too. I just couldn't get past that and no amount of quippy, regency dialogue or burning glances exchanged with reanimated corpses was able to help. There’s a whole extended section, for example, where Will wakes up, frightened and confused, with no memory, in pain, and his erection won’t go down when he’s near Angelika. The premise of this one is intriguing - I wondered how the author could recast the dark Frankenstein story as a historical romance.

Filled with carriages, candlesticks, and corpses, Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match is the spooky-season reimagining of the well-known classic that reminds us to never judge a man by his cadaver!There is no thought about those people being actual human beings and the ramifications of what this act could be. Will talks about leaving, about finding out who he was, constantly (he is re-animated with no memory of his former self) and all Angelika can think about is how she’ll be so sad when he leaves even though she’s known him five minutes and dude is a blank slate, because as I mentioned, no memory. The story is fun (but not for the squeamish), the romance kept me guessing, and the writing is wittty and stylish.