The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

What if the story of Frankenstein was told from a female point of view? This retold tale is from the mouth of Elizabeth Lavenza, the orphan girl sent to be Victor Frankenstein’s playmate. She is desperate to have a home and sees early on that in order to stay, she must find a way to control the odd, young boy. She suppresses who she is, becoming who he needs. As they grow older, she stays determined to keep him by her side. And so it would seem, is he. He is extremely possessive of Elizabeth and does not want even death to separate them.. Thus his experiments to defeat death begin.   When Victor runs off, Elizabeth goes on her own journey to find him. But what she finds is what the legends are made of. Who is really the monster? And how can Elizabeth defeat what she has helped to create. This was an interesting take of the classic story by Mary Shelley. I didn’t care for any of the characters though, so I really became uninterested in what the outcome would be. I do appreciate that Elizabeth wanted to clean up the mess she created, but I never really warmed up to her. Onward, and happy reading my friends.