"So This Is What Love Comes To." - Friend By Diana Henstell: A Book Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2025
- A review of this 1980's telling of Frankenstein. 13-year-old Paul "Piggy" Cunningham, his mother, and his mechanical friend, BeeBee, moved from the bustling city of Boston to the rural town of Welling Pennsylvania after a freak accident leads to the divorce of Paul's parents.
Paul soon befriends the son of the town's undertaker, Slime, and the girl across the street from him, Sam. The three of them become close friends and have fun together. Until Halloween night, when Sam's father destroys BeeBee and a few nights later, kills Sam in a drunken rage.
Racked with grief and despair, Paul quickly concocts a plan so dark, so seemingly impossible, that he'll have to not only cross the lines of science but the act of creation itself. After enlisting the help of the very hesitant Slime, Piggy manages to implant BeeBee's chip into Sam's brain and bring her back to life. Sam is back from the dead!... or is she?
What was meant to be an act of the greatest love quickly spirals into a web of chaos, despair, and murder...
Is Sam still the same bright, beautiful, tough as nails girl that stole Piggy's heart, ripped away from him so unfairly? Or is the milky-eyed corpse someone else entirely?
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Stephen, I just added this to my Goodreads TBR based on your great review. Also, I had no idea Wes Craven's movie Deadly Friend was based on a book so I'll have to read this and then rewatch the movie some day!
@bryanfarrell2029 Thanks so much, Bryan! Yes, a detail I forgot to mention is that Deadly Friend by Wes Craven is based on this book. I've never seen the movie myself, so I'll have to go check it out! Thanks so much for watching!
My eyebrow raised when you casually mentioned the child had a robot lol. Such a classic 80s trope of the brainy kid who can hack anything and/or casually has a sentient robot friend.
@pointytoebro LOL, I didn't even think of that! Definitely a classic trope that needs a resurgence. BeeBee was awesome!
That book sounds really awesome, sounds like an emotional rollercoaster.
@@GrimSquirrel666 Ugh, it is! It's very heavy content wise throughout the story, but much like why I love Poe, Henstell does a superb job at portraying the more tragic side of love. Love, of course, is wonderful, but I feel that a lot of media fails to present the sacrifices that go along with it; he hurtful words and actions, the regrets, the fear of never feeling that same kind of love again. It's just an incredible book.
@@littlelibraryofhorrors yeah wow sounds amazing.