Never The Bride
(Paul Magrs)
Whatever happened to the bride of Frankenstein? The woman the mad scientist pieced together to be a companion to the monster he created? According to Mary Shelley's classic, she was destroyed by the scientist.
But Paul Magrs resurrects her in Never the Bride as Brenda. Having lived an eventful lifetime spanning centuries, she finally settles down as an old lady running a bed-and-breakfast in an English seaside town named Whitby.
Only, trouble follows her everywhere. And in Whitby it takes several forms including the Deadly Boutique, where women have the years taken off their face, literally! There are also aliens, seances, cannibalism, vampires, prophecies of hell bursting at the seams and many more bizarre occurrences.
If all this gives an impression of a dark, gothic novel like Shelley's original, Magrs' book seems like a Harry Potter for adults. His endearing characters imbued with charming small-town qualities temper the dark incidents.
So you have Brenda and her dear friend Effie taking on monsters from earth and hell to save their friends. However, unlike the original, the book doesn't make any moral comment although it seems allegorical?the Deadly Boutique, for instance, being a critique of today's Botox culture.
Also, while Brenda laments she has no soul for she wasn't born but put together, in Magrs' imagination, she's all heart and certainly normal when compared to the aliens and cannibals that make their appearence in the novel. A quaint read.
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