I enjoyed this book overall. The pacing was slowwwwwwwwwww though. Much slower than I typically read. Going in, I thought I knew the story of Frankenstein fairly well, but I was wrong. In every depiction of Frankenstein's monster that I've seen, he cannot speak or speaks very basically. But on page 68, everything changed in the book for me. The monster speaks! The most interesting part of this novel is the monster's part of the journey. He was caring, observant, loving throughout his story as he figured himself out. His story moved me, really.

I think I didn't care enough about Frankenstein though. He's not likable, but he's also no that interesting. Be ready to spend a lot of time reading landscape descriptions and wordy sentences. Can I really put the latter as a fault though? This is an older form of English that I guess was wordy but damn Mary, maybe a few (a lot) of these sentences could have been shorter.

The book felt rewarding to finish. I say down with Frankenstein and let the monster live.