Today's Top Ten was a Freebie with the theme "Reasons Why I Love". I decided to go with "Reasons Why I Love my Favourite Tropes". 1. Cinderella Trope - I love it when the plain jane or the commoner falls for a member of the Royal Family / Billionaire.  E.g The O'Rourkes Series by Kylie Gilmore 2. Amnesia Fiction - I love it when the character suffers amnesia and has to find their way back to who they were prior.  E.g Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult 3. Teacher/Professor/Principal Romance - When the student falls for the Hot Teacher/Professor/Principal.  Guess you could say this has always been one my reader fantasies. E.g Absinthe by Winter Renshaw 4. Childhood Kidnapped/Abductions - I like this especially when it is a child raised in a family and they learn that they have another one out there and their life isn't what it should have been. E.g Who is Sarah Randall ? by Gail Haris 5. New Identities - When the character has gone into the Wi...

  Why Frankenstein and what do you think you add to the tale as originally told by Mary Shelley? An April 1818 review of Mary Shelley ’ s Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus in The British Critic: ‘ The writer of it is, we understand, a female; this is an aggravation of that which is the prevailing fault of the novel; but if our authoress can forget the gentleness of her sex, it is no reason why we should; and we shall therefore dismiss the novel without further comment. ’ Mary Shelley shocked, disconcerted and excited the booklovers and literati of the period when she breathed life into her wretch. Not only because she was a women — a girl of eighteen years — but because she advocated and opened discussions about deep-rooted beliefs and uncertainties in theology, science, the plight of mankind, and the social acceptance of those that are different. By comparison, the readership of the 21 st Century is well acquainted with the properti...