PositiveThe New Zealand Herald (NZ)I had a wish as I was reading Frankissstein, but I should have known better. So in love was I with the characters, with Winterson\'s clever writing and with the way non-fiction was so expertly interwoven with the fiction, that I hoped her stories would stay in the real world ... wonderfully pacey and playful ... I\'m not sure why we needed our modern narrator to be called Ry Shelley and I especially don\'t know why we need to have Ry telling modern-day Claire that Frankenstein had just had its 200 year anniversary...I would have preferred we got a Wizard of Oz-style character reboot. A show not a tell. But then, I\'m fussy and I want to believe ... Doctor Ry, in particular, felt too vibrant and real to exist in the same universe as Mary Shelley, the author ... I seriously enjoyed the book, despite its occasional silliness. The wordplay is excellent, with satisfying call backs throughout the text. There was humour and heart and anguish and I was totally gripped as I hoped for a grounded ending. I did not get this, but I had a blast, devoured it and then wondered what I had read.
