Book: The Madman's Daughter

Genre: YA

Type: Audiobook.

Book rating: ☆☆☆

Narration rating: ☆☆☆

Review

I was really looking forward to reading this book, the synopsis was brilliant but unfortunately it failed for me.

The beginning was really good, very victorian goth spooky stuff, but then the middle was really drab.

Juliet is a young girl who is orphaned, she works at the King's College in London as a cleaner, she used to be well-to-do but after her mother died from consumption and her father disappeared after a scandal, she is on her own.

She is still good friends with Lucy who is still a classy lady, and tries to get her to meet gallant young men to marry her off.

Unfortunately Juliet has a scandal behind her in that her father was the infamous Dr Moreau who was a great surgeon but was accused of doing all sorts of terrible things, thus creating the name in the papers of "The Butcher"

Juliet thought her father was dead although it was never confirmed, and after a couple of clues found at the college finds herself at an old pub looking for her dead father, she instead meets her old servant and lost love Montgomery.

Montgomery and his man servant Balthazar are in London picking up supplies to take back to an island where he and her father live. With this Juliet decides to go too.

Up to this point the book is really good .........

The island is near Australia so they are on a boat for a few weeks and just as they get within a few hundred miles they discover a castaway called Edward.

Now after this point there is the usual YA love triangle and it's ok BUT it seems to take over the book.
1st she loves Montgomery 's rippling muscles and in the same sentence she is admiring Edwards gorgeous sea blue eyes.

This goes on for nearly 3/4 of the book until the end, which is really good.

No spoliers here as it will ruin the "twist" but I did kind of work most of it out.

There are loves, losses, monsters, abominations and above all else Dr. Henri Moreau!