For some reason, I had this book marked as read in my file, but I apparently didn't leave a review. I apologize for this oversight. The book has since been archived, obviously, and should I get the chance to re-read it in the future, I would be happy to come back and post a review. Thank you for the opportunity to read it, though.

This book surprised me. I didn't expect to enjoy it so thoroughly. The character development was beyond what I was expecting for a sequel to such an original and old story. The descriptive imagery takes you and never lets you go. It was a real page turner.

I did not have a chance to read this book, but it is effecting my feedback rating. I am giving books 5 stars that I haven't read to improve my feedback rating. I am not recommending the book for my classroom or students since I have not read the book. There needs to be a better system of leaving feedback for books not read.

I'm never excited to be the lone dissenter, because this novel seems well received, but I did not like Frankenstein: A Life Beyond at all. Shelley's novel has its issues in terms of pacing and prose, some of which Planisek corrects, only to introduce wholly new writing tics. I think the nested storytelling style is fine, and in line with Gothic conventions. I really should have known to stay away: my experience with continuations and retellings of Victorian literature tends to be bad. Though, to be exact, it's more the self-serious continuations that I don't particularly like; comic treatments I can enjoy. Obviously, most readers seem to enjoy this, so I'm probably just an outlier. There's always got to be that one crank, and my number was up.

Review of FRANKENSTEIN: A LIFE BEYOND by Pete Planisek

In the vein of classics of Gothic suspense, including the original novel FRANKENSTEIN: OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, this first volume in THE RESURRECTION TRINITY is atmospheric with all the brooding suspense, gloomy settings, and subtle, implacable horror of Mary Shelley's novel. Not only is the horror present due to Victor Frankenstein's insufficiently considered scientific creation. The author's delineation of character reveal the sorry state of two families seemingly cursed, the Frankensteins and the Tierneys.

I recommend this series for curling up on a cold, stormy, night, with the lights dimmed, or for October reading as we lead up to All Souls' Hallow, the night when the veils are thin, and perhaps monsters roam abroad. Lock the doors, and retreat into the depths of horror and hubris. What hath greedy Man wrought?

My apologies; if I requested this book, it appears that due to family commitments I was not able to read it before the book was archived. I'm sorry it has lingered this long.