Delightful. Theodora Goss takes Victorian era science fiction and writes a novel that answers the question: what if we told these stories and centered them around women? She brings together the daughters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson), Rappacini's Daughter (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Catherine Moreau (The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells) and of course, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in the form of a female Frankenstein, into a narrative of women who meet and form an alliance with each other because they have been made so different from the world around them by their fathers (or father figures). Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine and Justine each have a unique voice and personality that comes through the text (and their interjections into the narrative). I loved the structure of this that pulls back the curtain somewhat, giving us the impression that we are privy to the thoughts of the writer, who is (ostensibly) Catherine, with contributions from each young woman telling her own story.