The Determined Heart: The Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein by Antoinette May: A Book Review
The Determined Heart: The Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein Author: Antoinette May Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Release Date: 2015 Pages: 412 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: The Determined Heart reveals the life of Mary Shelley in a story of love and obsession, betrayal and redemption. The daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley had an unconventional childhood populated with the most talented and eccentric personalities of the time. After losing her mother at an early age, she finds herself in constant conflict with a resentful stepmother and a jealous stepsister. When she meets the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she falls deeply in love, and they elope with disastrous consequences. Soon she finds herself destitute and embroiled in a torturous love triangle as Percy takes Mary’s stepsister as a lover. Over the next severa...