no like this made me so uncomfortable like the amount of time there were mentions of dicks and childish penis jokes you would’ve thought this shit was written by a man. Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match may be one of the weirdest mish mash of books I have read in a long, long time.

This book has serious My Lady Jane vibes which is one of my all time favorite YA books but it’s adult so there’s an inordinate amount of conversations about cocks and loud sex that My Lady Jane lacks. all of this was cloaked in decent writing and as a result i didn't fully realize how ridiculous the plot was until i explained it out loud to someone. Like the Frankenstein's aren't adorable nerds, they're a couple of megalomaniacs with delusions of grandeur and no thought for anything but their own supposed mental superiority and how famous they're gonna be once they reanimate a dead person they've sewn together. 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.and patchwork boy is brought back to life, and angelika expects him to love her immediately with essentially no acknowledgement to his former existence as a potentially married man. sally thorne has lost her touch and will never be about to replicate the success of the hating game i fear.

Sally’s writing has always spoken for itself and while this one speaks of dismembered body parts and gothic mansions, it was no exception.The book opens as Angelika and Victor are browsing a room of dead bodies for their personal science experiments. stars, it had such great potential for a great spooky read but just fell flat and was full of unexpected religious messaging and overtones. the entire first chapter is Angelika going into a morgue, making fun of a dead body for being inadequate and then sewing a bigger, better dick on him. 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. Sally Thorne is an incredible author that I have enjoyed in the past, but you can't love them all and this happened to be one of the misses.

For generations, every Frankenstein has found their true love and equal, unlocking lifetimes of blissful wedded adventure. In fact, it’s written in such a way that Will’s new appendage really desires Angelika but he himself, the man with the brain, does not want to do physical things, in fact keeps almost trying to run away from her at every opportunity. this time the power imbalance -- wealthy spoiled woman, undead nobody with no memory, heavily reliant on said wealthy woman -- is also layered with consent issues because he literally had no say with a) coming back to life and b) the parts of his body she kept or replaced.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! Its impossible to get away from the horrifying implications of literally playing god with a human life, its just too massive and terrible of a concept to then insert a romantic, cutsey story of an obnoxious rich girl who wants to build her own husband. I loved how authentic he felt as a character even though the way he spoke and really everything about what he said did not fit into the historical time period at all. 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.