After an ordinary university career in Ingolstadt, Victor Frankenstein moves to England where he meets Percy Bysshe Shelley and takes up the studies for which he is best known.
I wondered at times what the author was bringing to the story that wasn't in Mary Shelley's version apart from Frankenstein's rather meta meetings with Shelley, his two wives, Byron, and Polidori. And then I hit the ending. Now there was a twist I didn't see coming.