Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match: A Novel

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Of course, it’s also really well-written, there’s some wonderful moments of sexiness, banter and pathos, and I felt Sally Thorne adapted her voice super successfully to an irreverent histrom style. All the praying and the like at the end, felt like being lectured, like only through this action and by accepting religion and the like, could they get what they all truly want, etc. 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. You could argue that it’s Victorian England, everyone was pretty religious, the Church was a big thing etc but it’s made very clear that the siblings, especially Victor, shun all that and they are modern and believe in science.

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. 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.I thought the religious aspect of Second First Impressions was weird, but the shoehorning of religious morals and actually just religion in general into the end of this, was incredibly jarring. You see, Angelika is a bit ‘not-like-other-girls’ and despite being beautiful, exceedingly rich and clever, she makes men run screaming from her because she’s too eager in her attempts to woo them. And I think where AFMHM lost me as a reader early on, and never quite regained me, was that, for me, I didn’t feel it managed to extract a successful romance from the inherited problems of its premise. Despite her beauty and wealth, Angelika’s intelligence and independence have alienated her every suitor, so she and her brother have hit on the solution of making her one. I didn't need to read page after page of Angelika being like, "Well, I can't deny this guy is handsome and could give me everything I want and also that I really like him.

a historical rom-com that imagines Victor Frankenstein's sheltered younger sister, and her attempts to create the perfect man. Which is, on the one hand, fair enough maybe, and I’m absolutely not saying it’s not okay for women (real or fictional) to have preferences for particular body types or physical attributes. I'm sorry, I genuinely thought I could suspend disbelief enough to find the quirky humor in this but its just too gross for me.

Sure, the scene where they choose a guy because Angelika likes his face but another guy’s absolutely massive d*ck to mix ‘n’ match because haha, why settle for a mediocre one when you can have hung like a horse, the world is her oyster, am I right, is weird AF but the biggest problem for me was that Angelika and Will, her re-animated man with the monster penis, had zero chemistry. I told myself that after the last Sally Thorne novel, Second First Impressions, that obviously whatever it was that had made me love The Hating Game so much, was a one off. Trying to ignore their heart-pounding chemistry, Angelika reluctantly joins the investigation into his past, hoping it will bring them closer. Her feelings came off as completely shallow and manufactured as there was absolutely no true romance leading up to her feelings. When assisting in her brother Victor’s ground-breaking experiment to bring a reassembled man back to life, she realizes that having an agreeable gentleman convalescing in the guest suite might be a chance to let a man get to know the real her.

This is the story of Angelika Frankenstein, Victor's rich, spoiled, romantic little sister who assists him in all his insane scientific experiments (i. The two siblings live together in Blackthorne Manor, a huge house owned by the Frankenstein family for generations, just outside Salisbury village.

It felt gross for Angelika to be as old as she was and needing to be ~taught better behavior by a man, and a priest at that.

He is not a new person like Dr Frankenstein’s creation in the original text or Frank-N-Furter’s Rocky.But this is not remotely the nail in the coffin that I expected it to be (everything post-THE HATING GAME has been unpredictable) and I look forward to seeing what she does, and where she goes, next. I didn’t even like the sound of this from the blurb but I was picking up some holds from my local library one day and I saw it sitting on the new release shelf. I'm definitely glad I gave it a chance because I do think Thorne has shown she can do more than just contemporary, and she can be weird, poke around into different spaces, and that's all good.