There's just something about Moore's writing that makes me willing to overlook flaws that would have really irked me in someone else's book. And this conceit really shouldn't have worked, nor should the over-the-top accents, but they did. I laughed a bunch. I learned a little. I really enjoyed the afterword. I'll keep reading Christopher Moore.

Audiobook ARC provided by NetGalley.

First, my thanks to NetGalley for the advanced copy to listen to!

If we were to take Vienna, 1911, prior to WWI with Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud and artists like Gustav Klimt in a historical fiction novel and...mixed it with a sci fi novel--say, Frankenstein, you'd get this book.

That being said, note the trigger warnings. If you've read Christopher Moore before, you won't be surprised, but yes, this does have discussions of sex and rape and the treatment of women in the 1900s. Nothing terribly detailed--your 3-peppers-and-up erotic novels are much, much worse imo. I find the humor to take me back  to my younger days--crass, maybe a bit punny, likely something that would get an eyeroll from me nowadays. Once I sunk into that mentality, I found myself LOLing, rooting for the gals, and loving Geoff.

This is a part of history I am not familiar with, so a smart comedy novel, but also a bit educational for me and I appreciated that. I do think those who are knowledgeable will find this a smartly written, funny, light novel despite its dark moments. I appreciated the feminist slant, the author's dedication to doing the work that went into this novel, and the afterwards for the unknowledgable, such as myself. 

Lastly, the narrator did excellent with accents and voices and clarity.

If you are not familiar with Christopher Moore's work: His stuff is Dark, and Irreverent, and Hilarious. If you aren't prepared for this combination, you aren't prepared for this book. The book even includes a trigger warning set at the start, and the audio book even makes it clear you shouldn't listen to the book without headphones in a place where others may be sensitive to those topics. He knows what he's doing, and he is great at it.

If you are familiar with Christopher Moore's work: He's really is great at what he does, isn't he?

If you aren't familiar with Frankenstein or Klimpt, he won't make you suffer for it, though I do think you should go familiarize yourself with them first because Frankenstein is a classic and how are you not familiar with Klimpt's work?! The internet exists. Use it. I will say that I think he was harder on Adam / Frankenstein's monster than the character deserved, and I also think he was easier on Victor Frankenstein than the character deserved, but the pieces fit together and the end result was so enjoyable that I didn't mind so much.