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I am a big H.G. Wells fan. As a teen, I read every book he had written. I remember how The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Invisible Man distinctly creeped me out. Unlike the sci-fi of War of the Worlds, the former books were horrifying.

I didn't think that The Madman's Daughter would live up to H.G. Wells but Juliet is a great protagonist. You're rooting from her from the start. Juliet Moreau is an orphan but she keeps her chin up. She doesn't complain about how and why her life devolved after her father's disgrace and her mother's death but she has questions that she thinks she will never answer. That is...until she runs into her father's former assistant, Montgomery, who she grew up with and realizes that her father is not only alive...there might be some truth behind her father's ruined interpretation.

I read this book in one sitting. The whole time, my skin crawled but I couldn't stop. I had to know what happened. I was thrown back into the scare that H.G. Well's classic had given me. The big secret is a bit easy to figure out as you read on but wanting/needing to find the details behind the secret.

Unlike many first books that are part of a trilogy, this book truly stands alone. In fact, I felt like the story was complete. It was a movie-like ending...maybe even a cliffhanger for some? The question is then...where does the trilogy go from there? Something tells me that Juliet is not done with the island of Doctor Moreau. Can't wait for the second book!


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The Madman Daughter Megan Shepherd Books Reviews

At the beginning of this story I was very hopeful about this book. We had an headstrong female protagonist and I was very interested to see how the interpretation of such a creepy classic would play out. However, the promising pieces just did not gel well together and I didn't love this one.

Honestly I think part of the problem with this book is something outside of the author's control. The source material, the original Island of Dr. Moreau, is quite short and doesn't have a lot of details. The original is quite mysterious and gruesome which translates well, but Shepherd had a lot to fill in and smooth over to make this an interesting and engaging story for young adults. She does a fair job, but engagement is where this book struggled.

After a strong first few chapters, this book took a bit of a nose dive. The pacing is extremely slow especially in the beginning. As soon as the story hits its stride, we get on a ship and it feels like the story hit the horse latitudes. Not only that, but that headstrong narrator I mentioned, seemed to disappear in the face of a love interest. Juliet seemed to shift her focus entirely from the dark themes of the story and her father's past to the two men she is flirting with.

Like I mentioned there is a love triangle which never sits well with me. Juliet swings wildly between the two love interests in an unbelievable way. I wasn't convinced she was interested in either one of the men because she constantly changed her mind (sometimes in the same paragraph!)

HOWEVER, the last 100 pages of this book salvaged it. The pace picked up and some of the true madness crept into the story. The darkness finally appeared and I was tearing through the pages to find out what would happen to Juliet. Her father's madness and the revelations at the end of the story were what I was looking for throughout and I'm glad we got there even though it took a while. Even though I struggled with this book, I'm looking forward to the next one and I will continue on with this series.
BIG OLD SPOILER WARNING!

Okay, that said, this is maybe the shortest book review I will ever write, because I loved just about everything about his book...except for the fact that Montgomery let Juliet leave the island with only a scanty supply of the medicine that we know, by the end, is the only thing keeping her alive. And Juliet - MENSA-worth Juliet - never considers the possibility of learning the formula herself? Montgomery never considers telling her? Sorry, but that's nothing better than sloppy click-bait for the next book. Which, of course, I'm reading. But really. You can't write such smart characters and then have them act so very stupid, and retain reader respect. I'm reading on in the way that I read the second Twilight book knowing it's choclate cake that will do no more in the end than add inches to my waistline. It would have been SO easy for Evil Dad to give Juliet a false recipe for the antidote, or Montgomery not know how it's made, or even for Juliet, at the end, to remind Montgomery that she only has a short supply...sigh.
I am a big H.G. Wells fan. As a teen, I read every book he had written. I remember how The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Invisible Man distinctly creeped me out. Unlike the sci-fi of War of the Worlds, the former books were horrifying.

I didn't think that The Madman's Daughter would live up to H.G. Wells but Juliet is a great protagonist. You're rooting from her from the start. Juliet Moreau is an orphan but she keeps her chin up. She doesn't complain about how and why her life devolved after her father's disgrace and her mother's death but she has questions that she thinks she will never answer. That is...until she runs into her father's former assistant, Montgomery, who she grew up with and realizes that her father is not only alive...there might be some truth behind her father's ruined interpretation.

I read this book in one sitting. The whole time, my skin crawled but I couldn't stop. I had to know what happened. I was thrown back into the scare that H.G. Well's classic had given me. The big secret is a bit easy to figure out as you read on but wanting/needing to find the details behind the secret.

Unlike many first books that are part of a trilogy, this book truly stands alone. In fact, I felt like the story was complete. It was a movie-like ending...maybe even a cliffhanger for some? The question is then...where does the trilogy go from there? Something tells me that Juliet is not done with the island of Doctor Moreau. Can't wait for the second book!