Brian's Book Blog

An expedition to the north finds Victor Frankenstein floating in the sea, and the captain then relates his tale.

This book is massively overrated. Frankenstein comes across as a whiny, petualant, self-centred character with no redeeming features.

I'm not sure if it was the original intent, but his creation comes across as more sympathetic than him, and everything that happens to Frankenstein is as a result of his own actions.

The prose is long winded and quite tedious in places, not helped from being told only from Frankenstein's perspective. In his mind, he's done nothing wrong and all the things that happen are the result of an ungrateful "child" that doesn't know what's best for him.