This is called the prequel to Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein. The story is told from Victor Frankenstein’s point of view and the main characters are Victor, his twin, Konrad, their cousin Elizabeth, their friend Henry, and an alchemist, Julius Poidori.
On one of the friends adventures at the Frankenstein’s chateau, they discover a hidden library, Biblioteka Obscura (the Dark Library) built by an ancestor who was an alchemist. Despite promising his father that he would not return to the library, Victor was hooked on knowing more about this mysterious world.
When Konrad became ill, Victor, Elizabeth, and Henry, worked to find the ingredients for an elixir that would save the twin. Their search leads them to the old alchemist Julius Poidori.
The story has some romance as Elizabeth and Konrad fall in love. Victor is furious that he is not the one that Elizabeth loves. If you have not read the novel, Frankenstein, you probably won’t know that some of the things that happen in the book are there because of what happens in the older novel.
Kenneth Oppel has planned a sequel to this book, Such Wicked Intent. The novel is also going to made into a movie too.
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