Lady and Her Monsters, The

"Her narrative... rattles enjoyably through a lurid and restless landscape. ... Equally a literary and a scientific endeavor." -- Wall Street Journal

"Montillo achieves a freshness through her lively narrative approach and a fascination with long-ago science and its ethics that sparks across the pages." -- New York Times Book Review

"Enthusiatic prose... A Spirited investigation of the bizarre times that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." -- Shelf Awareness (Starred Review)

"A delicious and enticing journey into the origins of a masterpiece." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"With a flair for both drama and detail, Montillo breathes her own kind of life into the story of the men determined to discover its very elements." -- Discover Magazine

"Spills the dirt on the making of the 19th-century novel--affairs, family drama, a lake house with Lord Byron!--and paints a grimly fascinating picture of the dissections and experiments in "animal electricity" that inspired the gothic tale." -- Mental Floss

"Montillo's book is a welcome tribute to the literary, and especially the scientific, roots of the story." -- The Commercial Dispatch

"A welcome tribute to the literary, and especially the scientific, roots of the story." -- The Lady and Her Monsters

"Montillo never loses sight of the fact that it was Mary Shelley's imagination that sewed the pieces together - and provided the vital spark that keeps the tale alive nearly two centuries on." -- New Scientist

"A haunting picture of an era in which science and the arts overlapped, a perfect storm in which inspiration for "Frankenstein" could strike. Like a bolt of lightning." -- Washington Post