disclaimer: the bed emoji is for the amount of times that characters slept/fainted (especially victor) (we stan mary for acknowledging that you're not you when you're sleep deprived and also swooning is a gender inclusive activity!!)

this is genuinely my favorite classic! i really loved reading victor's thoughts for the most part! he's really egotistic and I loved analyzing his thoughts; why would he act/think this way and all that. i appreciate how he was written, and even his faults! i

somehow managed to like and dislike both victor and the creature (in different moments/"arcs"). mostly, i lean towards liking victor, though he really got on my nerves in the last few chapters (the return of my yearning king robert walton made me persevere lol). for the creature, i started off indifferent-to-sympathetic, then I completely empathized with him and then I completely didn't, which made me heavily dislike him, until the end which kind of fixed the thing that I disliked about him?

frankly, this book has an semi-annoying amount of fatalism and at many points I was screaming at the characters stuff like "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT???" but i can't say I didn't enjoy it!! also major props to mary shelley's writing! the way she writes emotion is unparalleled in my opinion!! at least when compared to other 19th century books that I've read (which aren't that many)!