This was a really fun Frankenstein-adjacent story! The plot follows Mary an orphan who happens to be the great niece of Victor Frankenstein. From a young age she's always been interested in science but being a woman in the 1800s the best she could do for her future was marry a scientist who respected her as an equal, or so she thought. Her marriage quickly falls apart with her husband after a miscarriage and gambling problem. As a result, they move up to his family home in Inverness and begin a desperate project of attempting to recreate life from the inherited Frankenstein notes Mary has. 

A wonderful queer and age of science story with murder, scientific politics and racism and sexism of the time. 

It was a bit slow and the beginning and my only disappointment is I wish Nessie was more heavily referenced/alluded to.