When I picked this book up I was hooked from the very first page. I sped through the first 50 pages before I had to put it down to get back to other things, but couldn’t wait to pick it up and get back to reading. I sped through this book, it was really good! It had a lot of dark parts, I mean it is about people who steal bodies and doctors who then operate on them or dissect them to learn anatomy. There’s a lot of hints about who might be the bad guy, and then there are a lot of red herrings thrown in that keep you guessing till the end. The twist of events that concluded the book was major! I did not see it coming, well, at least not in the way it did. The story itself is interspersed with the viewpoint of a girl in an insane asylum, and I assumed I knew who it was, but even that was called into question towards the end. The characters were all really interesting and added a lot to the story.

There were aspects reminiscent of Frankenstein, even a little bit of a Jack the Ripper feel, and at one point, I almost wondered if there was going to be something in there about the elephant man. There wasn’t, I don’t know if the time period would even match up off the top of my head, but so much made me interested in all that they were doing.

Seriously, there were so many twists and turns in this one that I was on the edge of my seat all the way through. I could have stayed up and read the last 100 pages on Sunday night, but I had work in the morning, so I made myself quit with about 30 left and saved those for lunch and dinner Monday. I knew I would like this one, but didn’t know just how much. Will probably be a favorite of mine for the year!

Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.