Sixteen-year-old Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself in London—working as a maid, attending church on Sundays, and trying not to think about the scandal that ruined her life. After all, no one ever proved the rumors about her father's gruesome experiments. But when she learns he is alive and continuing his work on a remote tropical island, she is determined to find out if the accusations are true.
Accompanied by her father's handsome young assistant, Montgomery, and an enigmatic castaway, Edward—both of whom she is deeply drawn to—Juliet travels to the island, only to discover the depths of her father's madness: He has experimented on animals so that they resemble, speak, and behave as humans. And worse, one of the creatures has turned violent and is killing the island's inhabitants. Torn between horror and scientific curiosity, Juliet knows she must end her father's dangerous experiments and escape her jungle prison before it's too late. Yet as the island falls into chaos, she discovers the extent of her father's genius—and madness—in her own blood.
Inspired by H. G. Wells's classic The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Madman's Daughter is a dark and breathless Gothic thriller about the secrets we'll do anything to know and the truths we'll go to any lengths to protect.
Genre: YA, romance/scary stuff
Cover Love: so old fashioned! Love it!
Overview:
This book was ok. At first, I really enjoyed it. I love historical fiction, it's one of my favorites. All the dresses, and customs are the best. And this book was a little scary at times, which I enjoyed. I don't read a lot of horror (or like ever) and this book wasn't really horror per say, but it was scary at times. And Juliet was a great MC, she totally embraced who she was, and that she may too, be a little mad. And I loved Montgomery at times, and I liked Edward at other times. I went back and forth on which one I wanted Juliet to be with. The romance wasn't thick, which was very nice. I'm narrowing down my romance books just a tad, so I liked this a lot.
Romance:
Very little. Juliet does have one odd dream, which she doesn't have any clothes on, but that's all she says. After the dream, she almost kisses both gentlemen, and she does end up kissing one of them, a great deal at one time though, which I frowned upon, but it was just quick, and then it was over. Juliet spends most of the book thinking to herself which one she wants to love, Edward or Montgomery, and it got annoying at some parts, when I just wanted to solve the mystery in this novel. But all together: very little romance.
Language:
No swearing until the very end of the novel, when all the characters got scared and angry, so it wasn't all through the book and I could understand why they all started swearing towards the end.
Violence:
As said in the summary, someone is killing villagers on the island, and there's mention of blood, cuts, guts, and her father isn't very sane, so he's always working on animals, and they're in pain. A rabbit loses it's head, and people are getting shot at times. There's a lot of mention of blood, but not so much that I wanted to be sick. So it wasn't over done. And it was a scary book! You needed just a bit of blood at times.
Religion:
Juliet's father is very against religion. He hates it, any kind. He makes commandments for all his villagers, which is odd, he hates religion, but he makes himself a god to all the villagers. I don't get this one bit, but he's mad, so I guess it's not supposed to.
This book wasn't bad! I'm excited for book two, coming out next month. And the cliff hanger is so sad. *sobs*
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars!
-M.L
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