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Perfect way to spend a spring morning. Recently started reading Angleika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne.
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bought angelika frankenstein makes her match today and had a realisation
(btw after some googling i now realise lisa's last name is not frankenstein. but it is in the title so close enough right lmao)
#ok to reblog#random but i do genuinely believe there are not enough natural redhead characters out there#my cosplay options are kinda limited cos i can't do wigs yet. it sucks#discord#angelika frankenstein makes her match#angelika frankenstein#lisa frankenstein#redhead#ginger#book#film#beep beep cosplays#beep beep likes lf#i'd die for you 🎀#and i'd kill for you 🪦
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I’m reading “Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match” and of course this is what my brain is doing:
Victor Frankenstein ^ (I MISS HIM)
Angelika Frankenstein ^
William ^
+ the iZombie theme song/“Stop, I’m Already Dead” by Deadboy and the Elephantmen
#I AM ALLLLLLREEAAAAADY DEAAAADDDD#angelika frankenstein makes her match#sally thorne#frankenstein#with her nose stuck in a book#david anders#sam witwer#once upon a time#izombie#charlotte spencer#sanditon#no comment on the actual book#still reading but it's definitely a thing#i miss david anders regularly on my tv as whale+blaine though#i've also had the 'stop i'm already dead' song in my head for awhile#i really do enjoy a lot of darker shows/character/stories when i think about it XD#zombies and ghosts and frankenstein and sleepy hollow
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If i had to read this whole thing so do you.
#video#tiktok#tiktoks#funny#lmao#wtf#book#books#angelika frankenstein makes her match#sally thorne#ehunzi
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1 out of 5
I rarely and I mean RARELY ever do not finish a book but I felt so uncomfortable with the content of the book. Part of its on me because when I read the synopsis the dubious consent issue should have been apparent.
Premise: Angelika Frankenstein agrees to help her brother with his science experiment to reanimate a dead person made up of different body parts so long as she gets to create her match. Angelika, despite being the most beautiful woman around and a rich heiress, isn’t like other girls and at age 24 she’s unwed because she’s too independent. Of course, for the times this means she’s too old and is doomed to become a spinster aunt. Maybe the answer is that the right man isn’t out there for her and she needs to make (literally) her dream man who will instantly see her and fall in love with her! 🤞
Look I’m going to spoil stuff because I have to process this. The first few chapters Angelika and her brother Victor are literally looking through a morgue for bodies and her primary reason for selection is of course looks. Then I’m put through a rather uncomfortable conversation between her and her brother talking about what the man’s cock size is going to be. Something I could not imagine ever talking about with my brother the way they did and I’m pretty open with my siblings. Anyway, she chooses the biggest cock (the amount of time spent on this man’s penis size had me cringing) they have and it hits me how if this were the other way around people would be crying sexism and objectification. When her monster wakes up he’s horrified and in so much pain and all she can think about is how pretty he is. I kid you not it takes likes less than a few minutes for Will (his temporary name as he had no recollection of his memories) to become physically aroused by the sight of her in pants 😑He’s horrified because mentally he doesn’t want to be and is upset about not knowing who he is but his damn dick just can’t help it. The man has to be almost physically dragged up the stairs because he’s in so much pain and she’s more curious about the bath he’s going to be getting.
Will is struggling so much explaining to her that he feels wrong. That his body doesn’t feel like his own and he’s uncomfortable by how physically responsive he is to Angelika. For her part she is automatically disheartened to realize that he doesn’t instantly fall in love with her. She can’t understand why he can’t be grateful to be alive again and just want to live with her where she can spoil him rotten with her money and just accept the sugar baby life. I have never hated a protagonist so much. She makes Bella Swan look amazing. Worse, before she’s even said a word to this man she starts calling him “my love.” I just felt sick at how his wishes weren’t being respected, the pressure he was facing, and how all of these issues were being excused by she has a good heart 🙄 I kid you not the first day after the reanimation her brother asks her “if it was everything she hoped for,” meaning did she finally lose her virginity? Will hasn’t even been undead for a full fucking day and already there’s this expectation that Will should be putting out. There’s a scene where Victor tells her that she needs to tell Will he might have been married as when they found the body he had a ring on and she outright says no because then she’ll lose him. Laughable since she tells Will several times that she will let him go whenever he wants. She does eventually thankfully but damn did I want to punch her in the face.
I had to stop there. I skimmed the book and the little I read just got worse. Some weird religious undertones, a damn love triangle that is beyond dumb because clearly the other guys isn’t a contender at all, smut that I’m thankful to have missed because I will forever be creeped out by the power imbalance of the relationship. I am questioning everyone who loves this book because it’s absurd, weird and creepy. Stockholm Syndrome at its finest.
I give it only a one because the first chapter was good and some of the banter was pretty good. But I have to think Mary Shelley is rolling around in her grave.
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Im reading Angelika Frankenstein makes her match and im thinking 👀
Angelika and Will
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Your potential can be found in the places where you can make a difference in this world.
Sally Thorne, Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match
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first october read! a little bit of fizz for the beginning of the month. it can only get spookier and more gay from here.
this book is first and foremost a fun steamy read, but it also covers some interesting character development and tackles topics like the distribution of wealth and the morality of religion. i was not expecting that from a book with a goofy cover and undead husbands, it was a very nice surprise. i read this in one day ravenously, truly i was gluttonous with this book.
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Title: Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match | Author: Sally Thorne | Publisher: Avon (2022)
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Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match was the third Frankenstein book I read this month and it was....fine.
The premise is that Victor Frankenstein's younger sister can't find a suitable man to marry so she decides to create her own, picking out all his parts according to what she finds most attractive (and yes that includes his dick). Unfortunately he remembers nothing about his identity and wont marry her (or more importantly sleep with her) until he figures out who he was.
It's a silly concept, perhaps a touch on the icky side when you consider the original text treated the creature as Victor's son, but I went in expecting something light and fun. And I spose thats mostly what I got.
I think there were a couple big things that meant I didn't enjoy it as much as I'd hoped I would. One is my fault - this book followed two Very strong Frankenstein inspired books which set the bar very high and while it is unfair to compare them to Angelika because they are vastly different genres and tones, the brilliance of Pride and Prometheus and Our Hideous Progeny really made the issues of AFMHM stand out.
The second thing however, is very much a fault with the book. To me it felt as if the author had over complicated her story unnecessarily. The focus drifted away from the quest to figure out who her beau was before his untimely death, got sidetracked with about 3 other storylines, and then felt a bit rushed right at the end when everything had to be wrapped up.
Add on top of that some issues with dialogue (I don't think Thorne knows how to write male/female dialogue that isn't flirting which meant some of the Victor/Angelika convos were bizarre and gross) and the historical setting (why set a book in 1850 if its going to read like it could be 2023?), not to mention the implications of the very end of the book with the housekeeper's niece (Pride and Prometheus attempted a similar sort of thing much more successfully), and the whole thing really just fell flat for me.
Certainly not the worst book I've read this year. I did enjoy parts of it, the ending even had me tearing up a little. But I can't possibly give it more than 3 stars.
#booklr#angelika frankenstein makes her match#sally thorne#read in 2023#brigid speaks#book update#Frankenbooks#look ive said it before and i'll say it again#romance isnt super my genre#and this proves it remains that way even with a frankenstein twist
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Sarah MacLean September was a success! 2/3 (and more)
#sarah maclean#a rogue by any other name#angelika Frankenstein makes her match#alyssa cole#one good earl deserves another#stacy reid
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I read this Frankenstein fanfiction romance where the sister of Victor Frankenstein basically cock shops in the morgue in the opening scene and it is bonkers.
You should read it.
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If you are also deep in Lisa Frankenstein brainrot, please read "Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match" by Sally Thorne!!!
#build a boyfriend is now a trope ig#lisa frankenstein#sally thorne#imagine me saying this in a sexy librarian outfit and pointing a sharp letter opener in your direction
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hey ari, just checking in! hopefully these next days are better than just going
I got told I was going to hell. And I had to watch someone get an injection in their eyeball 0/10. Do not recommend it.
I also Read 2 books.
In the Garden of Spite- Historical Fiction about Indiana Murderess Belle Gunness who lived in LaPorte at the turn of the 1900's. (LaPorte is 59 miles from Chicago FYI and I have SEEN the property where this shit happened. It is creepy AF.) I DO Recommend that one. It's a mix of fact and fiction but compulsively readable. TW for SA, Gore, Murder, Sex... like it is deeply fucked up and deeply fascinating. Proceed with caution. If you want the FACTS about Belle (as far as we know them) Harold Shecter (sp?) Did a true crime book about her called Hell's Princess and it's fab.
More people should know about Belle. The story is fucking wild.
I also read Angelika Frankenstein Makes her Match... I have considerably less warm feelings about this one. Like. I never read the Hating Game (this was also written by this Author and it's apparently good) And the writing wasn't BAD. But like... It just felt... off. Like an attempt to write a Feminist historical Romance that just fell flat. And there were a lot of Genre specific trops that were exhausting. And Angelika Frankenstein and her brother weren't particularly likeable but. At least it didn't make me want to put my head through the dry wall. And I could forgive the liberties taken with what I'm assuming were supposed to be Regency Era niceties. AND descriptions of dress. VICTORIAN AND REGENCY ARE NOT THE SAME THING.
MARY FUCKING SHELLEY WAS NOT VICTORIAN
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Spooky Season Reads for 2023
Hello my lovelies,
Today I have some reading recommendations for ✨Spooky Season✨
The Silence in her eyes
Girl on the Run
King of Dead Things
Don't You Dare
Frankenstein
The Haunting of Hill House
White Is for Witching
The Shining
Mexican Gothic
Coraline
Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror
Fledgling
The Weight of Blood
Interview with the Vampire
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Hallowe'en Party
The Good House
Payback's a Witch
Dracula
There's Someone Inside Your House
The Hunger
Clown in a Cornfield
Cemetery Boys
Practical Magic
The Kiss Curse
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Annotated
Carrie
Wicked
The Witches of New York
The House on Foster Hill
Motherthing
Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match: A Novel
The Hacienda
Pet Sematary
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Turn of the Screw
Rebecca
Her Body and Other Parties
How to Sell a Haunted House
Dark Harvest
Haunted
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Halloween Tree
Rebecca: Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Year of the Witching
Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Graveyard Book
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Bunny
When Things Get Dark
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
Aura
and Broken Summer: A Novel
#book community#bookblr#booklover#booklr#books & libraries#books#books and reading#currently reading#reading#bookstagram#booktok#spooky season#spooky books#horror#thriller
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Getting ready for the Booklr Reads Australian challenge. These are a selection of Aussie books I own (fiction on the left, nonfic on the right) which I'll be choosing from during the month. I'm a mood reader so I have no idea what I'll actually end up picking but I'd like to get through at least a few of these.
List of titles and brief descriptions of each is below the cut for anyone looking for ideas for their own Australian reads.
The open book is The Tea Chest by Josephine Moon (my current read.)
It's a rather sweet novel revolving around four women who's lives in Australia have been disrupted and who come together to open a tea shop in London.
A true History of the Hula Hoop by Judith Lanigan
The book weaves together two parallel stories, one of Catherine, a struggling Aussie hula-hooping performance artist, and the other of Columbina, a feisty 16th century Italian female clown travelling through Europe with the first ever commedia dell'arte troupe, while also weaving in the history of the hula hoop.
Without Further Ado by Jessica Dettmann
A romcom inspired by/paying homage to Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, in which the protagonist loves the Kenneth Branagh adaptation and finds her love life mirroring the plot.
Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne
A romance inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, in which Victor Frankenstein's sister Angelika is anxious for love and decides to take matters into her own hands and create a suitable suitor.
Empires by Nick Earls
This novel spans continents and centuries. It's split up into 5 parts, each occurring in a different time and place, but which all intertwine and connect. It's about two brother from Brisbane who've lead separate lives, but its also about humans in strange and difficult times, the way people see themselves, and the interconnectedness of all things.
The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson
A cosy mystery set in 1965 Sydney. It follows a group of tea ladies who work in a fashion house getting tea and biscuits for the staff. Until a murder occurs in the building and the tea ladies become accidental sleuths.
Top End Girl by Miranda Tapsell
Larrakia Tiwi actress Miranda Tapsell's memoir about her work and life as an Aboriginal woman and how she combined both when creating the film Top End Wedding.
Girt by David Hunt
A humorous look at Australian history, from megafauna to Macquarie. Full of strange, ridiculous and bizarre stories.
Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia's Jazz Age by Deirdre O'Connell
This is the story of the Sydney and Melbourne legs of American jazz band The Colored Idea's ill fated Australian tour in 1928. It's about the international rise of African American jazz, the history of Australia's entertainment industry and modernism in the arts in Australia, and the influence of the White Australia Policy beyond immigration issues.
Flash Jim: The Astonishing Story of the Convict Fraudster Who Wrote Australia's First Dictionary by Kel Richards
This is a biography of conman, pickpocket and thief James Hardy Vaux who was sent to Australia as a convict. Not only does it go into explanations of his numerous crimes but also the origins of Australian English as Vaux also created a dictionary of the criminal slang of the colony, some of which can still be seen in modern Australian language.
Great Australian Mysteries by John Pinkney
A collection of Australian true crime mysteries including inexplicable disappearances, unsolved murders and scientific enigmas.
Notorious Australian Women by Kay Saunders
This book celebrates the lives of some of Australia's most fearless, brash, and scandalous women, including bushrangers, courtesans, and writers, amongst others.
#booklr reads australian#booklr#book stack#reading#vegemite#australia#(coincidentally the book im currently reading is also by an aussie#but id started that before the challenge was even announced lmao#im hoping to finish it by the end of july but if i dont then it still counts for the challenge in august!#also actually i've already read top end girl so i defs wont be reading it in august)
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