Looks at life, love and the effects of miscommunication (the hated yet relatable trope). Not just with love interests but also the effect it can have on a family.

This is emo not goth. Someone described Jane Austen novels as "just a bunch of rich people visiting each other's houses." This is definitely that genre of book.

through the complexity of the diverse range of women she writes in lodore, mary shelley creates the perfect picture of womanhood and explores the lives of misunderstood women, giving them the humanity and redemption they so thoroughly deserve. a man could not have written what shelley has written in

This book was horribly boring. It was one of those books that you put down multiple times and then pick up again and try over? It wasn't worth picking up again all those times. And was the book that taught me that you don't HAVE to finish a book that you don't enjoy. Life's too short. I was so disap

The most Jane Austen-like of all the five Shelley novels I’ve read so far, this work lives or dies depending on its characterization. While her other works presented exceptional settings (a world beset by plague), acute emotional outpourings (a would-be suicide devoting his life to the young girl wh

This was not the best example of Shelley's writing. The narrative told rather than showed the reader what was happening. There was minimal dialogue which made the descriptions that much harder to enjoy. She often quoted other authors to justify her characters' actions. The main plot has potential to

Lodore is often reviewed as an Austen-like manners novel with a dark side.

There is no dark side.

People assume that because Mary Shelley wrote it, it must have the Gothic flair of Frankenstein that made her famous.

No.

This is just a story about people who have gotten involved in somewhat complicate