I want to thank publisher and netgalley for the opportunity to read the advanced copy of this book in. my apologies for the delay and sharing a review. my recent retirement has allowed me to begin working on the backlog of reviews that I have on my shelf and I will be posting a review on my Instagram account @shhi_iamreading link to my IG account is https://www.instagram.com/shh_iamreading

I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read the advanced copy of this book. I apologize for the delay in sharing my review. Now that I've recently retired, I’ve been able to tackle my backlog of reviews, and I’m excited to share my thoughts on this one. You can find my review on my Instagram account @shhi_iamreading. Here’s the link: https://www.instagram.com/shh_iamreading

Did not receive/read in time due to technical error on kindle/tablet. Not having left feedback has due to error has impacted my shelves. Leaving 4 stars.

I just wanted to say sorry for not sending feedback on this title. When I first started using Netgalley, I wasn't that great at selecting books that ended up really working for me. I usually didn't give feedback on those that didn't appeal to me once I started reading. Realizing now that wasn't the right way to do things! My apologies, Laura

I tried to read it. I got bored. I tried again, but twice thwarted. Today I said, "It is the day!" Because if I call l myself a book reviewer, not READING the book is two sins, as I cannot be said to review it. And many a time I cried out to my husband: "10%, and by God I hate it!" And the ilk.

I hated, hated, hated sloughing through.

At one point it seemed to be about Mary Shelley taking credit for Frankenstein but not having been the true author. But alas, the percentages remaining meant at least two more lurking mysteries or accounts yet provided. And still to no avail, the book was determined to drive me about a maze that opened to more mazes. And the sheer number of authorial voices is a feat, to be sure. Narrators on many levels, people's point-of-view informing and distorting and maddening each another turn around the rabbit's hole.

It took me perhaps until 40% to care at all, as by then I was curious and it got curiouser, THANK GOD. And then, at the end, the whole tale is like a cipher solved, but then like a Rubik's cube, another turn changes the entirety of the landscape. The last 10% is worth reading. Getting there traverses all the layers of Dante's Hell.

If you are an academic reader, persuade yourself it is no drier than most texts. If you love P.B. Shelley the Poet or Mary the author, only read this if you would be okay with witnessing a small assemblage of people desecrating their graves with fecal matter and remaining unchanged in your deportment. Also, be warned; the title of the book will not make sense until far too late to matter much. No grand AHA! will be found. And yet for some pages, I got caught up in a little reading! And so, my review is here, with one lonely star where the author is given credit, and deprived her of 4 others which her efforts maimed, mutilated, and killed. By God and before Hell. The rabbit died.