A review by tigerlinus
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Michael Burgan

4.0

4.5. Not what I expected, given Hollywood's massacre of the story. It misses perfection for a few reasons, one of which was that a scientist as bright as Victor, who was able to create a man, doesn't see the pattern of revenge the monster has planned for him. All that Victor loves is attacked; however, he doesn't quite get - even though directly threatened - that the monster may kill

Spoiler

Elizabeth and not him, so he allows Elizabeth to go off by herself

. Issues like this were the misses, and a few slow areas.