The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

I've never read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein before, so there were several things about this book I wasn't expecting. I looked up a sparknotes summary of Frankenstein, and was quite surprised to see that this particular retelling was actually very accurate to the original story. I'm perhaps more familiar with the story of Frankenstein as it's told in cinema(though, no I haven't watched the original movie, either), so I had no idea that Elizabeth Frankenstein was, in fact, a character in Shelley's story. Or that the child killed by the monster was Victor's brother. Or that Igor WASN'T a character in the original story? Fascinating.

I don't know if one would get more enjoyment out of this book if they'd read Frankenstein first, but I found this book immensely interesting and fun to read.