I really enjoyed this book and reading it. I did feel at times like I should have started on book one with the small details that were included about people and places that I didn't have much information on. However, it was overall a good book that mostly could stand alone.  I liked reading the blend of familiar and new characters - featuring a grown Oliver Twist, the Artful Dodger, and Victor Frankenstein. I didn't like how the Bio-Mechs were looked down on so harshly or how the doctors stopped trying to save lives to advance the Bio-Mech program. It was, overall a good read that I was able to enjoy while planning for the holidays.

Interesting young adult novel. I like the authors use of known characters like Frankenstein and Oliver Twist while incorporating their own concepts of zombie like beings.

We follow the infamous tale of Frankenstein back into the world of BioMechanicals only this time we follow a different set of characters as they tackle the consequences of the scientific breakthrough.

This book was received as an ARC from Harlequin TEEN in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and Thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

I knew from the looks of the cover and the detailed description that this was going to be an intensely captivating book and was I right. I was not expecting the direction the book took with the plot incorporating the characters from Oliver Twist to get involved with Aggie and her family. I am a huge fan of overcoming adversity and achieving dreams but it was such an unusual twist when Aggie had to team up with the Artful Dodger in order to save her family and herself. From page to page cover to cover it was just more interesting as you read on.

We will definitely consider adding this title to our YFiction collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.

I had to go back and read the first one. You don't have to but I did. Accuracy. So the first one was really good in fact I enjoyed it way more than this one. The characters are different than the first one. It was just missing something that the first one had done better. It is a solid read just of the two not my favorite. Thank you for allowing me to read NetGalley and the publisher.

My Review: Although I really enjoyed book one to this series I was a little let down with this one. I wanted to enjoy that this one had a new set of characters to follow but it was just lacking that spark that book one had. It felt like key characters were left out and that it was completely disconnected in parts to book one. I will say that I loved the romance in this one. In the end, this one was still an ok read but it just wasn't as good as book one.


Go Into This One Knowing: Great Romance, Disconnected to the series, New Characters