Also, the poetry that the author came up with were all very heartfelt, and I, as a reader, felt the main character’s pain in one way or another. I had quite an enlightening time knowing the pains and hardships that Mary Shelley went through that made her want to create Frankenstein. Mary’s Monster is a graphic novel that is told in prose / poetry, and even though I’m not that familiar with the horror genre, I really did enjoy breezing through this title. Read on for a detailed review of Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein. And so I read it in a day, all the while enjoying the beautifully drawn artwork and incredibly emotional poetry that gave a lot more context into the most terrifying novel known to all generations. And I was surprised to see that that was exactly what was waiting for me within the pages of Mary’s Monster. This did not, in any way, affect my overall opinion of the book and/or the story.ĭuring the first two weeks of January, I felt this utter need to read something creepy that’s not too much hard to get into. Huge thanks to my friends from Roaring Brook Press / Fierce Reads for sending a review copy of this title in exchange for an honest review. 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. Publication: Janufrom Roaring Brook PressĪ 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. Genre: YA Biography, Nonfiction, Graphic Novel, Sequential Art

Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge

Mary's Monster by Lita Judge