![]() Hours after finishing the novel, I am already anxious for another installment. Having recently read Shelley's Frankenstein, I was not entirely sure how this attempt at a childhood story of the mad doctor would turn out. I am often wary of prequels to classic novels, but I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised and more than a little short of breath by the time I read the final sentence of this, dare I say, masterpiece. Frankenstein, his family, and the passions that ultimately consumed him. Love, loyalty, loss, and obsession, all linger at the heart of Kenneth Oppel's This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, a gripping narrative of the early years of Mary Shelley's Dr. Over Konrad's body I spoke words of power, and applied unguents and strange machines to his limbs, his chest, his skull.Īnd then I gave a great cry, and energy erupted from within me and arced like lightning from my body to his. ![]() A huge fury stirred inside me.Īnd suddenly the coffin was no longer a coffin but a laboratory table. Behind me I could hear the weeping of my family. ![]() ![]() ![]() I stood at his head, peering down at him. Konrad was dead and laid out in his coffin, the hue of bodily corruption already on his flesh. This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein.Ī few nights later I woke from a dream so terrible that it shimmered darkly before me, even as I sat up in be, panting. CM Magazine: This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein. ![]()
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