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Purple for the Spooky Science

The Glass Scientists vol. 1 by S. H. Cotucino

October 11, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 20: Purple When the public library has a summer reading program that adults can do, and also get prizes, it’s a good time. The past few years, the top reading level prize (defined by minutes read) is you get to take home a new book from a seemingly random selection the library ahs gotten. This year I went with The Glass Scientists volume 1. It was on the YA list, but I tend to keep an eye out for things I can use in […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, Graphic Novel, S. H. Cotucino, SH Cotucino, steampunk, The Glass Scientists, VIctorian alternate history, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:53 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: cbr17bingo, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, Graphic Novel, S. H. Cotucino, SH Cotucino, steampunk, The Glass Scientists, VIctorian alternate history, YA ·
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Frankenstein but plants and gay!

A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock

July 15, 2024 by LB 2 Comments

I saw a reel on Instagram from the author talking about this book, and I was immediately sold. Frankenstein? Queer? Messy, messy characters? Sign me up! And this absolutely delivers on all fronts. The beginning of A Botanical Daughter is a little slow, but it perfectly sets the scene of Grimfern, an estate inside a greenhouse outside the closest village, and the three main characters – Gregor, botanist and lord of Grimfern; Simon, taxidermist and romantic partner to Gregor; and Jenny, local village girl whose […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: achillean, Frankenstein, gay, historical fiction, horror, lesbian, murder, Noah Medlock, plant horror, queer, romantic, sapphic

LB's CBR16 Review No:9 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: achillean, Frankenstein, gay, historical fiction, horror, lesbian, murder, Noah Medlock, plant horror, queer, romantic, sapphic ·
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Getting caught up on reviews

Frankenstein, or: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy

November 5, 2023 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

Frankenstein, or: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (5 stars) As I slowly make way through books most of you read in grade school, I’m learning that these books have staying power for a reason. I’ve liked the vast majority of them. Sometimes, I don’t know how I made it through school without having read them before, but my ability to avoid school work should never be underestimated. This book was phenomenal. Melodramatic, and the prose, though beautiful, was a bit antiquated and florid, but […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Cormac McCarthy, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan, The Sunset Limited

ingres77's CBR15 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: Cormac McCarthy, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan, The Sunset Limited ·
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“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

November 14, 2022 by cheerbrarian 2 Comments

In one word: Staggering Cannonball Read Bingo: Hot I will never recover from the origins of this book. That Mary Shelley started writing it to tell a spooky story on a rainy day AT THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN is staggering. And that this story has stood the test of time and become such a classic and revisited tale, so much so that I’m re-reading this book that I read when I was 13 because my kid is now reading it at 13? Astounding. So to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: cbr14bingo, classics, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

cheerbrarian's CBR14 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: cbr14bingo, classics, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ·
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How I Met Your Monster

The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter: The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club Book 1 by Theodora Goss

February 2, 2022 by ElCicco 1 Comment

This YA novel, the first in a trilogy, introduces the reader to the members of the Athena Club. It is their origin story. What is the Athena Club? It is a group of young women in London ca. 1900 who have one thing in common — a monstrous past! They are Mary Jekyll, Diana Hyde, Catherine Moreau, Justine Frankenstein and Beatrice Rappaccini. A series of gruesome murders of prostitutes will bring these young women together with a little help from none other than Sherlock Holmes […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #Science Fiction, cbr14, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, ElCicco, Fiction, Frankenstein, Rappaccini’s Daughter, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, theodora goss

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #Science Fiction, cbr14, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, ElCicco, Fiction, Frankenstein, Rappaccini’s Daughter, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, theodora goss ·
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It’s ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE…..!!!!!!!!!!! So, RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!

Frankenslime by Joy Keller

November 10, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

To understand my feelings on Frankenslime by Joy Keller you must understand a personality quirk: I can “taste” the words. Not physically of course, but I like to chew on them in my mind. And they started out dry. Very dry. Where was this obviously Frankenstein (and later you will see The Blob references) spoof going? When the dog named Igor is the best thing, you hope it picks up. When I realized that the ending was going to be an almost pee-your-pants funny, I […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Ashley Belote, Frankenstein, halloween, holidays, Joy Keller, monsters, science, slime, The Blob

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:371 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Ashley Belote, Frankenstein, halloween, holidays, Joy Keller, monsters, science, slime, The Blob ·
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