![]() ![]() The main cast is White.Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. The short time frame also heightens the tension of this summer romance: What will happen when they leave the bubble of the Vineyard? The mix of budding romance, competitive hijinks, a close-knit circle, as well as dealing with loss make for a satisfying read. Early details are picked back up, and many elements come satisfyingly full circle. Taking place over the course of a week, the narrative is tight with well-paced reveals that disrupt predictability and keep the plot moving. To win and honor Claire, who was a master of the game, Meredith must keep her eye on the prize. Only one person can win, though, and any alliance has an expiration date. What starts off as a pact of sharing strategic information with Wit grows into something more as the flirting and feelings develop. Nor did she expect a wedding-week game of Assassin, a water-gun–fueled family tradition. She didn’t plan on a meet-cute/embarrassing encounter with the groom’s stepbrother, Wit. Meredith, though, resolves to take this time to celebrate family and bridge the rifts resulting from ghosting friends. ![]() It’s been a year and a half since the sudden loss of Meredith’s sister, Claire, and the grief remains strong. Her cousin’s wedding means a return to Martha’s Vineyard, a well-loved destination but one filled with bittersweet memories. Grimly plainly worked hard, but, as the title indicates, the result serves his own artistic vision more than Mary Shelley’s.Ī summer trip helps break 18-year-old Meredith Fox out of a haze of mourning. His doomed bride, Elizabeth, sports a white lock à la Elsa Lanchester, and decorative grotesqueries range from arrangements of bones and skull-faced flowers to bunnies and clownish caricatures. Frankenstein looks like a decayed Lyle Lovett with high cheekbones and an errant, outsized quiff. Though the rarely seen monster is a properly hard-to-resolve jumble of massive rage and lank hair, Dr. The latter feature spidery, often skeletal figures that barrel over rough landscapes in rococo, steampunk-style vehicles when not assuming melodramatic poses. The few who reach Victor Frankenstein’s narrative will find it-lightly pruned and, in places, translated into sequences of largely wordless panels-in blocks of varied length interspersed amid sheaves of cramped illustrations with, overall, a sickly, greenish-yellow cast. Most general readers will founder on the ensuing floods of tiny faux handwritten script that fill the opening 10 pages of stage-setting correspondence (other lengthy letters throughout are presented in similarly hard-to-read typefaces). A slightly abridged graphic version of the classic that will drive off all but the artist’s most inveterate fans.Īdmirers of the original should be warned away by veteran horror artist Bernie Wrightson’s introductory comments about Grimly’s “wonderfully sly stylization” and the “twinkle” in his artistic eye. ![]()
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