{"id":1659,"date":"2019-01-28T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2018-12-30T23:02:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T04:02:12","slug":"book-review-angelmonster-by-veronica-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Angelmonster by Veronica Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/download-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1660\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/download-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/download-1-1.jpg 181w, https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/download-1-1-48x74.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/a>Candlewick,\u00a0 May, 2006<br \/>\nISBN: 0763629944 .<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Available: New<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWhat manner of ungodly baby kills its creator?\u201d Even at sixteen, Mary Shelley\u2019s nightmares force her to face\u00a0 this question.\u00a0<em>Angelmonster\u00a0<\/em>takes us into the mind and heart of the author of\u00a0<em>Frankenstein<\/em>, in the entwined stories of her tragic love affair and marriage to the tormented poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and the terrible events that she must come to terms with to write this classic tale of horror. Veronica Bennett has taken some liberties with the order of events, but the story does follow along the lines of Mary\u2019s life with the poet, and her fictional take draws us in to this unconventional, passionate, and independent woman\u2019s thoughts and feelings.\u00a0<em>Angelmonster<\/em>\u00a0is gripping and gorgeously written historical fiction woven with strong elements of romance and horror, but don\u2019t expect lots of gore and sex. This would be a great book to bridge readers of paranormal romances to historical fiction, or to connect readers of historical fiction to gothic novels and classic horror fiction. Since the Frankenstein story is so pervasive, there are a lot of great literary and media connections as well. Although it\u2019s not strictly horror,\u00a0<em>Angelmonster<\/em>\u00a0deserves a place in the well-rounded YA horror fiction collection. Highly recommended- suggested for grades 10-up, due to mature content. Contains: extramarital affairs, suicide, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and the death of small children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candlewick,\u00a0 May, 2006 ISBN: 0763629944 . Available: New \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWhat manner of ungodly baby kills its creator?\u201d Even at sixteen, Mary Shelley\u2019s nightmares force her to face\u00a0 this question.\u00a0Angelmonster\u00a0takes us into the mind and heart of the author of\u00a0Frankenstein, in the entwined stories of her tragic love affair and marriage to the tormented poet Percy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,119,171,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-horror","category-paranormalsupernatural","category-ya-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-qL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}