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rewound to pate 1 for school project. Pray for my soul, I have like 5 shitty ass days to read this.

I am fighting my way through this book. Slowly, but surely.

Haven't updated progress in a while. Not gonna lie, I struggle with this bc I think that the protagonist is a piece of shit all the girls are wasted on. Now we are at the part where the girls play a trick on him so I might be more down with that. (But I put this book aside at this part for a week + so who knows,)

Hey, so... How is Mary Shelley 's book existing together with all the name checks and Easter eggs? Also. I appreciate that Victor is appropriately dispicable and abhorrent.

So we are mixing book canon and film canon. Cool. The first time the criminal mind thing comes up, I am going to throw this book across the room.

The reveal hit hard. That was good. 6th victim and very definitely mysogynist deranged serial killer.

Mary Shelley's book cannot exist in this... How???? You just name checked Elizabeth Lavenza! I mean if it turns out that the events of Frankenstein were supposed to happen how do you explain that two of the characters have the exact same names as two victims here (at least I assume Elizabeth will be, bc you know... She is in the same room as the obsessive mysogynist potential serial killing prick when introduced )

Yes I checked back for the first name of officer Harker. It's Jonathan. It cannot not be a Dracula reference. Is there a Dean Koontz extended monster universe??

Now I am going to be obsessively looking for easter eggs. Like is police officer Harker's name a Drakula reference??? Who knows, not impossible though

Okay so I am an idiot. All the victims are Easter eggs: Shelley Justine - >Mary Shelley, Justine Moritz ; Meg Saville - >Mrs. Margaret Saville; Alphonse Chaterie - > Alphonse Frankenstein. The only one giving me trouble is Bradford Walden bc there is not direct match so either this is the one exception or it is either a reference to Robert Walton or M. Waldman.

One of the victims is named Caroline Beaufort... EASTER EGG! I appreciate it.

So the police woman's first name is Carson... And she already did a police brutality and now she is fantasising about shooting some people in the knee without warning bc she doesn't like them. Cool.

I am a bit of a pessimist: I tend to assume that things will only get worse, not better. By ending "On the Boiler" with "Purgatory" Yeats proved me wrong.

.... Because I apparently hate myself. Nothing kills a girl's admiration for a man's poetic genius quicker than finding out that he was into eugenics. (Reading it for a school essay)

How am I still on board with this book despite how how dispicable Jorg is???

12 pages in and the 13 years old protagonist ordered 200 people killed, raped 2 girls and killed someone for disagreeing with him. Is this going to be Game of Thrones from Joffrey's perspective or will I at one point get a reason to want him to succeed apart from the "it is my birthright to rule" argument?

Oh my goodness, every single new story finds a new way to break my heart and gives me a brand new reading list.

I swear to God I finish it the minute I get my life back from school.

chapter 13 is undoubtedly the best chapter so far

About to start the first book.

rewound to pate 1 for school project. Pray for my soul, I have like 5 shitty ass days to read this.