This retelling of Frankenstein is masterful! I love it! I love it!! This is a famous story and yet, I don't want to spoil how she comes at so instead here are some comments by Kiersten White.
The dedication is so beautiful: "For everyone made to feel like a side character in their own story"
From the author's note: "Two hundred years ago, a teenage girl sat down and created science fiction. She did it on a dare."
102. Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
I love Alice Hoffman, and I've had this book on my shelf for a long time. Her writing, as always, is lyrical. She takes the commonplace and illuminates the beauty in it. This story centers around a perfect marriage that faces its great challenge- the perfect husband is a criminal and no one knew. His crime is heinous. Heinous!! So do people who loved him deeply, trusted him implicitly, continue to love him? Would you? Would I? Can you truly change? I can't say I liked this book. It is awful sitting there with the heinousness of his crimes and the goodness he seems to be afterward. The author doesn't show us the transition. He don't see how he changed. It just seems like he flipped a light switch and went from being reprehensible to angelic. I have trouble reconciling that change with what I have seen of reality. But the questions central to the story- can people change? can you redeem yourself after such horrific actions?- are interesting and compelling.
103. The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018 edited by NK Jemisin & John Joseph Adams
I love John Joseph Adams curated anthologies! Love them!! It's a delight to read these best of anthologies! The stories are amazing! You can feel the guest editor's influence, and it tickles me every time I discover I've read a story that is in these anthologies! This one is no different!!
104. Rosewater by Tade Thompson
This book has been getting a lot of buzz, so I had to check it out. It's set in Nigeria after an alien something has taken up residence in the town and the consequences of that. It's interesting that this book, The Spaceship Next Door, which I read earlier this year, and The Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers seem to share some of the same DNA. Regardless of that, this book is super interesting, and I am eagerly awaiting the second book in the series!
105. The Power by Naomi Alderman
This book was kind of intimidating with all its accolades like President Obama's favorite of 2017 and one of the 10 best books of the New York Times Book Review, but it was super interesting to read after having read Stephen & Owen King's book, Sleeping Beauties. I'd highly recommend reading these two books together. As an aside- I feel I'm reading a lot of books that talk about power and women, which feels possible because of the #metoo movement, even if that's not really the case.
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