From the bestselling Australian author of The Hating Game, now a major motion picture, comes a historical rom-com that imagines Victor Frankenstein’s sheltered younger sister’s attempts to create the perfect man.
Clever, pretty (and odd), Angelika Frankenstein has run out of suitors. When assisting in her brother Victor’s ground-breaking experiment to bring a reassembled man back to life, she realises that having an agreeable gentleman convalescing in the guest suite might be a chance to let a man get to know the real her.
When the handsome scientific miracle sits up on the lab table, her hopes for an instant romantic connection are thrown into disarray. Named Will for the moment, he has amnesia and is solely focused on uncovering his true identity. Trying to ignore their heart-pounding chemistry, Angelika reluctantly joins his investigation, hoping it will bring them closer. But then a second suitor emerges to aid their quest. Perhaps fate is not something that can be influenced in a laboratory? Or is Will (or whatever his name is!) her dream man, tailored for her in every way?
Filled with carriages, candlesticks and corpses, Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match is the spooky-season reimagining of the well-known classic that reminds us to never judge a man by his cadaver!
If you’ve been on Booktok or seen the bestseller lists in the past few years, you will recognise the name Sally Thorne. Thorne is a breakout star of the romance genre, whose debut The Hating Game was named in the Top 20 romance novels of 2016 by the Washington Post and was recently adapted for film. Her follow up novels, 99% Mine and Second First Impressions, were also popular, page-turning romances. Thorne makes a big departure from her previous work with her fourth novel, Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match, which she said began as Frankenstein fan-fiction written during the pandemic. The result is an unexpected and hilarious romp of a romance. Readers of Mary Shelley’s 1818 classic Frankenstein will devour this, but for those unfamiliar with that book, there’s a lot to love here.
This is the kind of novel where you need to suspend all disbelief and simply fall into Angelika’s charmed world in Blackthorne Manor, Salisbury, England. It’s fun to see Angelika take centre stage while her brother, Victor, plays the sidekick. Angelika uses her brother’s lab to stitch something slightly different together – her dream man. For romance lovers out there, this book has all the charm, humour and chemistry we’ve come to expect from Thorne.
Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match is the kind of escapist, delightfully far-fetched romance that’s easy to get swept up in.. It’s bound to delight both new and long-time fans of Thorne, who continues writing excellent, homegrown romance.
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