This review can also be found on Reading Between ClassesCover Impressions: I love the dark feel of this cover. The scratched keyhole and the black on black outfit are contrasted against the blue sky as Victor Frankenstein takes his first steps on the road toward his destiny. On the back, as if scr...
This book was a bit of a balancing act with me. I am not sure what I expected, starting it. I have never read Mary Shelley's original novel (and knowing it has a tragic ending, I probably never will!), though I am aware of the gist of the story. (Who's not??)I do, however LOVE LOVE Oppel's "Airborn"...
Victor Frankenstein wasn’t always the mad scientist we know him as today. Once he was simply a rebellious and rambunctious young man living a privileged life. It’s not until his identical twin, Konrad, becomes ill that his mind begins straying to thoughts of alchemy. Well, that and the fact that he,...
Pacy and fun, in a silly-dark-Gothic kind of way. You can suck me in easily with hidden alchemical laboratories and outlandish quests and gender-bending teenage girls; but you lose me a bit with romance that feels forced and unnecessary, and with evil cripple stereotypes. I wanted to love the on-boa...
Victor Frankenstein's twin brother Konrad has become ill and none of the doctors can think of anything to cure him. But Victor has found a book in the secret library detailing instructions on making the Elixir of Life. He, his cousin Elizabeth and friend Henry all go on a quest to find the ingredien...
This "prequel" to Frankenstein features fifteen-year-old Victor, twin brother Konrad, cousin Elizabeth, friend Henry, and a Dr. Polidori who resides on Wollstonekraft Street with a pet lynx. Clever, exciting, suspenseful, and completely engrossing.
In this prequel to Mary Shelley's classic gothic novel, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein's life is about to change. His twin, Konrad, has fallen ill and it seems no doctor can cure him. Unwilling to give up, Victor enlists his cousin Elizabeth and best friend Henry on a dangerous search for ingr...
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