Acquire Today Cadaver Queen (Cadaver Queen, #1) Originated By Alisa Kwitney Supplied As Audiobook

heard this called a Feminist Frankenstein Retelling I am so here for that! Non so se si possa definire un vero e proprio retelling, visto che della storia originale non è che sia rimasto poi molto, a parte i nomi dei personaggi, però questo libro mi è piaciuto molto.

L'atmosfera da romanzo gotico si percepisce fin da subito, e mi ha conquistata,
Certo, probabilmente ci sono aspetti che a più di una persona potrebbero far storcere il naso, ma non per questo penso di dovermi vergognare per non essere riuscita a staccarmi dal mio ebook finché non sono arrivata alla fine per fortuna oggi avevo il giorno libero!.

E poi sono stata bravissima: sono riuscita a non leggere l'ultima pagina prima di esserci arrivata! I have no idea why this book has not gotten the hype that it should! I had not even heard of Cadaver amp Queen until I was rummaging at the library and I stumbled across the book, with it's eye catching cover and intriguing synopsis.
This was a Frankenstein retelling with steampunk elements, a strong female main character, and the best kind of romance!
I listened to the audiobook and the narrator was great, giving personality and voice to each character, and between the narrator and the written words I felt like I was watching the book unfold instead of just listening.

I loved everything about the book and really, really hope there will be more, Keep in mind that this could be a standalone since it was wrapped up nicely, but I would love more.
I will keep my eyes peeled for more by Alisa, I can't. I can't do this. I'm not strong enough.
DNF around the halfway point, counting it as read and slapping it with a one star,

The image wasn't working, so just imagine the "look how they massacred my boy" GIF from The Godfather in here.
I have faith in you, you can do it,


Ugh. The one retelling that actually bothers to include Henry Clerval, and I still get stuck with an instalovey Victor/Elizabeth romance, where Elizabeth is turned on about pulling the sheet over Victor's bottom half down when she's literally trying to heal his injuries .
There was some weird 'not like other girls' stuff going on with Elizabeth too, but that might change later on so I can't really comment on it.
What I can comment on is that I tried to skim to the end, and got to the page where Clerval called Elizabeth a bitch and a whore, and burned Victor's face with a lit cigar so uh yeah, I'm dnfing this one for good, y'all.

Also the relationship between Elizabeth and Victor is kinda sorta necrophilia Like, he's reanimated but in some stage of decay that crosses a line for me.
So I'm just saying that we could've gotten Clerval and Victor but instead we got, . . that. Listen I could literally sit around and read Frankenstein retellings all day every day, I'm not exactly sure why because the original novel is really very soso for me, but I just love all the retellings so much! And somehow they still all manage to be different enough to be interesting.
This one features all the familiar faces plus a guy with a club foot named 'Byram', one guess who he's supposed to be lol and is set in a steampunkish world where the process of bringing bodies back to life is a wellknown thing and not something Victor managed on his own.


I guess some people will think that is too much of a deviation but personally I liked the transformation of Victor from creator to creature just because it's something different than what we are used to and made for a good story in my opinion.
I will admit that it's kind of weird to have Victor not be his dramatic mopey bastard self all the time but there's still enough of him in there to recognize I think.
I even liked the typical YA romance that would usually drive me up the wall, Incredible Im a big fan of retellings and anything that offers up a bit of a twist with a female lead tackling the mystery and horror along with a male dominated society but overall this book as just okay.


“Cadaver and Queen” begins with first year medical student Lizzie who wants nothing more than to prove herself amongst the men in her class but quickly finds that it will be an uphill battle with few allies.
Meanwhile, Victor, another medical student, wakes up to find that he has become a regenerated corpse with few memories of how he came to be this way and on his quest to uncover the secrets surrounding his death he crosses path with Lizzie and the two find that there is more to their school and its professors than meets the eye.


This book doesnt hold back when describing the prejudice between Lizzie and her classmates as she deals with their taunts and sexist comments while trying to navigate this field but where it succeeds in that regard it falters when dealing with class struggles and in some cases the treatment of other women outside the college.
While theres a direct confrontation between Lizzie and her roommate discussing the roles and attitudes between doctors and nurses the other women and sex workers in the book, along with those both men and women in the lower class become caricatures or lean into stereotypes and are portrayed that way throughout the remaining course of the novel with no real nod to a resolution to their concerns as the other plot elements wrap up.


I enjoyed the romance side of this even though theres some rush to it I think its handled nicely up until then end with the introduction of another character that sort of comes out of left field that I didnt care for and was brought up too late almost as an afterthought when someone realized it was needed as a plot element but even then that was left sort of ambiguous and wrapped up rather quickly making the real threat being that of the people outside rising up against their oppressors instead of those using science for their own means.


I feel like if youre looking for a book that deals with this kind of theme of a women looking to make a name for herself in the medical field laced with classic horror stories you should look at Stalking Jack the Ripper and save this for a slow day.

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Thank you to Harper Collins for sending me a copy for honest review

Lizzie Lavenza is the first female medical student to be enrolled at the prestigious Ingold School in England during thes.
She faces a lot of prejudice and quickly realizes she will need to work twice as hard as her male counterparts.
Upon arriving, she meets a former student named Victor Frankenstein who was murdered a few months earlier, Victor is now a Biomechanical part human, part machine, As time goes on, she discovers a sinister plan that the head professors of Ingold are planning that involves the Queen of England and these new Biomechanical soldiers.


I absolutely love retellings, so I was very excited for this Frankenstein retelling! The book was very quick to read and enjoyable.
At times, I did find it to be a bit slow, but I enjoyed it none the less.
I liked the banter between characters, especially Lizzie and the three boys, The romance was really well done in my opinion and I really enjoyed the slow burn of it.
The idea of the biomechanicals was also a really cool concept, One major downfall I found was that the ending felt a bit too rushed, but overall it was an enjoyable read! "It is dangerous to be right on matters in which the established authorities are wrong.
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All right, Since it's been a few weeks after reading this, I've had time to mull over this book, At first, I absolutely loved it, Because it was a refreshing read after a string of disappointments, I live for these kind of gothic, mildhorror retellings, and the writing was quite engaging! So why did I eventually rate it lower and remove it from my initial placement on my favorites shelf Because this ultimately was a bit rushed in a lot of places.
It should have taken more time to dig into the details, to expand upon secondary character arcs so that they stood on their own instead of being mere plot devices, and honestly it should have been a bit longer to develop that superrushed and confusing conclusion.




Now this isn't to say that it's a drag of a read! I really enjoyed a lot about this book, of which I shall get into first:

L I K E S:

the retelling aspect of this was so neat and quite unique imo
V I C T O R

"Its easy to think well of yourself when the world keeps telling you how wonderful you are.
You dont know what you might become if everyone started to treat you as though you were defective.
"

yes please always give me tortured souls struggling with the lines between humanity and monster/beast like yes that's one of my top story aesthetics in any genre
and yeah okay the romance was a bit instantaneous and cliche but darn it I still loved it all right

"I cant make you a respectable offer of marriage, Elizabeth, and so this can go no further.
But if I could and if you werent under the influence of an opiate, . . I would kiss you from the top of your head to the soles of your feet, "



the first half of the book was developed pretty well!! Things were

wellpaced, the mystery was growing nicely, and I was super excited to see how things ended
the writing wasn't terrible and while it didn't stand out it also didn't stand out.
. . you know what I mean, It wasn't abnormally poetic or magnificent, but it wasn't awful and thus did the job of telling the story nicely as far as the writing style went

"Thats the thing about getting older.
You think you have all the time in the world, and then one day you look up and you dont have any more time at all.
"

I am squeamish about irl medical stuff and even visual but I like it in my books for some reason



Lizzy's roommate was an underutilized character and there needed to be more of her
hello Jack we needed to know more about you
the friendship trio of Lizzy, Will, and Byram was gold and there was not enough of it

"Will went along with Byram because he loved his friend, and in the end, love was the reason why all sensible people did reckless things.
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not gonna lie I kinda lowkey ship Will and Byram okay

I also loved the professor's daughter!!
definitely needed know more about her, especially regarding that twist in the finale!!!!

D I S L I K E S:

pretty muchof the plot was where the reader is expected to just accept skeletal explanations sometimes literally ahahaha and move on



uh no I need more than that okay
literally needed soooo many explanations on soooo many things!!
aka reasonwhy this needed to be longer so development could be given on everything
like a lot of the plot hinges on certain reveals that just don't make sense
even the retelling aspect didn't do much to cover these flaws, unfortunately
Lizzy honestly really wasn't a super great MC and I loved Victor's chapters more than hers
she was just so stuckup most of the time
except around Victor cause obviously he had to fall in love with her so she had to be nice around him
not as much girl power/fierce friendships as I expected and what this book needed
there was A LOT thrown into the mix near the finale and compared to the rest of the book it really didn't make much sense

So, yes, there was a lot that needed to be explained in this book on so many levels, but honestly I really thought the writing and the skeleton of the plot was good enough to keep that annoyance to a minimum for me cause I was so caught up reading this and enjoying it.
It wasn't until after I'd finished this and after I'd had time to really think on things that I noticed the flaws.
Which, in my opinion, it does point a bit to the power of the storytelling in here if the first read has you so caught up you really don't notice things.
A mediocre read for me is where I can't help but notice flaws while I'm reading, And at least with this I was given enjoyment in the moment of reading instead of being annoyed while reading.
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