📘Spoiler Free Book Review📘
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Stephen King wrote, “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” and this quote kept coming to mind as I read Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein for the second time. 
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Who’s the real monster in this story?  I’ll let you decide, but if you haven’t read this one it’s not as apparent as you might think. 
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While this is a classic, written in the early 1800’s, I found the verbiage fairly easy to get used to and follow throughout. The novel begins with letters from ship captain R. Walton, as we learn about his new found companion, Victor Frankenstein. It was easy to feel a connection with Victor’s character in the beginning, and to picture his childhood and life growing up as I read volume 1. 
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Volume 2 changed to Frankenstein’s monster’s story and this was my favorite part of the novel, by far. Beautiful writing and excellent character development. It’s hope and despair so palatable I found myself tearing up and wanting to read it over again as soon as I finished. 
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Volume 3 wasn’t quite as enjoyable this time around, I think only because I knew how things were going to end and had already formed strong opinions after my first read. As much as I felt connected with Victor in volume 1, I wanted nothing more than to throat punch him in volume 3, or at least grab him by the jacket and tell him to stop being such a freaking wimp. 
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While volume 2 was definitely the 5 star part of this novel for me, considering it as a whole, it still comes out as one of my all time favorite classics. The descriptions of the people and settings were so well done, it was easy to immerse myself in the story. Paving the way for the tragic horror genre, it’s even more impressive to think that Mary was only 18 years old when she wrote this. 
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Highly recommend this book. So many quotable lines, but I’ll end with this, “I am malicious because I am miserable.”, because if we’re honest, can’t we all identify with that sentiment?💔