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Just remembered we read this in Year 7 English class and I recall being amused so the book must have been alright.

Such a beautiful and affecting outlook on life and death, and a perfect audiobook cast!

I'd recommend going into this blind! Unfortunately, I had just finished Stephen Fry's Troy, thus I knew all the main plot points very well.

Lilac and Gooseberries

listened as part of “the Monster Collection” on Audible, narrated by Dan Stevens

I had a base knowledge of what Frankenstein was about, although the clips you see from Hollywood are all about Frankenstein animating his “monster” in a dingy hovel, so I assumed that the book was primarily about that. I was therefore pleasantly surprised at the extensive narrative, explaining Walton's, Frankenstein's, and the creature's lives.

This is most certainly a horror book, but the horror is not in the animation of the creature, but in the human condition, and what it is to love, and learn, and feel.