The artwork is beautiful and the fact that it is black and white yet looks like watercolor paintings give the book a Gothic yet classic feel. The illustrations give you a clear and precise picture of both Mary and her monster as well as the world that Mary struggles to live in. While this book doesn't go truly into depth of her life, it paints such a clear picture of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley that by the end of the book your heart seems to be bleeding for the character that you have just read about and for the monster that she had created which was, indeed, herself incarnate. Her story is not only a cautionary tale for society but is also debated in classrooms and even science labs to this very day. her work, her Adonis, her magnum opus is still being rewritten, televised, immortalized on the silver screen, and celebrated over 200 years later. For all the hurt that she felt, for everything she had lost, for all the pain she had to endure. And through it all she is still remembered and will be forever immortalized through her masterpiece. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is one of the strongest women I have ever read about.
I read this book twice in one sitting and by the time I was done tears were streaming down my face! But rather than let it crush her, Mary fueled her grief, pain, and passion into a book that the world has still not forgotten 200 years later.ĭark, intense, and beautiful, this free-verse novel with over 300 pages of gorgeous black-and-white watercolor illustrations is a unique and unforgettable depiction of one of the greatest authors of all time. She was deeply in love with famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a mad man who both enthralled and terrified her, and her relationship with him was rife with scandal and ridicule. Mary, just nineteen years old at the time, had been living on her own for three years and had already lost a baby days after birth. Mary Shelley first began penning Frankenstein as part of a dare to write a ghost story, but the seeds of that story were planted long before that night. A young adult biography of Frankenstein's profound young author, Mary Shelley, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of its publication, told through free verse and 300+ full-bleed illustrations.
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