Book one-hundred-and-forty-nine: The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein

The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein (2005)
Minda Webber

Rating: 0.75/5

Way, way too much head hopping. I felt dizzy after the first chapter. You could never quite tell who’s point of view you were reading. Usually it changed every paragraph – a couple of really confusing ones even had two points of view in the same one…

And making everyone (and every thing) in the book something from literature got annoying after the first chapter as well.

Also, the main character’s name is Clair… every time I read it, I had to pause and mentally add an E on the end before it would make sense to my brain.

The problem, Clair realized, was that she was a Frankenstein. Her uncle's fame - he'd created her cousin Frederick from a bunch of spare parts - was a grave matter. Everyone in the family was a success, while all she'd managed was a humiliating misadventure with pigs. But her spirits were rising. The Journal of Scientific Discovery was promising to publish a paper on the Discovery of the Decade, and she had a doozy. She simply had to prove Baron Huntsley - man of distinction, man of renown, man about ton - was a vampire. With his midnight-black hair, soul-piercing eyes and shiny white teeth, what else cold he be? Oh yes, the baron wanted a bite of her or she was no scientist. And then there were all those other monsters. You'd never expect so many in 1828 London! Pretty soon she'd expose them all, and on everybody's lips would be...THE REMARKABLE MISS FRANKENSTEIN.

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Finished: Sunday 26/8