The (Not So) Young Adult Book Club is for those adults who love reading YA books (you know who you are) but teens are totally welcome to join us too!

At this meeting, we'll be discussing The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White (published in 2018), copies will be available in February to check out at the library. If you're interested in YA books and participating in this book club, please come to the meeting even if you haven't read the book! We are open to interested readers of all genres of YA! Hope to see you there!

Registration is suggested so we can plan, but not required. *Please note that the main library will not be open during the book club meeting*

"If you read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and thought the ladies in that were getting a bad deal, then this is the book you've been waiting for....White is unafraid to dig in the graveyard and piece together a creature of her own design out of old parts, and the resulting tale is dark and chilling." --NPR

Elizabeth Lavenza hasn't had a proper meal in weeks. Her thin arms are covered with bruises from her "caregiver," and she is on the verge of being thrown into the streets . . . until she is brought to the home of Victor Frankenstein, an unsmiling, solitary boy who has everything--except a friend.

Victor is her escape from misery. Elizabeth does everything she can to make herself indispensable--and it works. She is taken in by the Frankenstein family and rewarded with a warm bed, delicious food, and dresses of the finest silk. Soon she and Victor are inseparable.

But her new life comes at a price. As the years pass, Elizabeth's survival depends on managing Victor's dangerous temper and entertaining his every whim, no matter how depraved. Behind her blue eyes and sweet smile lies the calculating heart of a girl determined to stay alive no matter the cost . . . as the world she knows is consumed by darkness.

Literary notes: Bram Stoker Award for Best Young Adult Novel (2018), AML Award for Young Adult Novel (2018). It also received starred reviews from both Horn Book Magazine and Publishers Weekly.