Spooky season is finished, and I’m a little delayed at getting this post out, but I managed to read one of the all-time classic horror/thriller stories this year. 💙 blue’s Kindle Notes & Highlights for Frankenstein | Goodreads Frankenstein is easily one of my all-time favorite books. I read it during my senior year of high school, and I remember falling in love with the story; the theme of how dangerous it can be to be single-mindedly set on a goal. Is being a monster in one’s inherent nature, a result of their upbringing, a combination of the two, or more complex? And perhaps my favorite question that my English teacher asked my class when we finished the book; who is the real monster, Frankenstein or the creature? Personally, I think the true monster of the story is Frankenstein’s ambition, not necessarily Frankenstein himself. It was his blind and short-sighted ambition that led to the creation of the monster, his desire to create life out of a stitched-together dead l...

This book was definitely quite the read, and I mean that in the best way possible. I heard someone once describe it as “feminist Lord of the Rings”, and I knew I would love it. But even that description does not even begin to describe my feelings for the world, the cultures, the creatures, the magic system, the plot and the people this story introduced me to. It is by no means small, sitting at a whopping 830 pages. I read this book over the course of a month during downtime at my job. So, armed with a pen and colored tabs for annotating and keeping track of characters (something I heard I might need), I plunged into this book. By gods did I get sucked in. I was not emotionally invested until about 100 pages into the story, but considering the overall length of the book, I would say it’s pretty well-paced. The world is immensely complex, with different cultures, religions, viewpoints, contradicting histories for the same events, all of which are parallel to modern day religions and re...