This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel

This Dark Endeavor (Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, #1)

by Kenneth Oppel

When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.

Reviewed by Stephanie on

3 of 5 stars

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I wanted to give this 2 stars but I think I have it an unfair hands considering this was the first book I read after Vicious. It wasn't terrible, but it felt a little formulaic and cyclical in terms of plot, but. It was okay. Not wow worthy.

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