(hb; 2014)
From
the back cover
“Mr.
Hyde is trapped, locked in Dr. Jekyll’s surgical cabinet, counting the hours
until his inevitable capture. As four days pass, he has the chance, finally, to
tell his story─the story of his brief, marvelous life.
“Summoned
to life by strange potions, Hyde knows not when or how long he will have
control of ‘the body.’ When dormant, he watches Dr. Jekyll’s high-class life
from a paralyzed remove. Soon, their mutual existence is threatened, not only
by the uncertainties of untested science, but also by a mysterious stalker.
Hyde is being taunted─possibly framed. Girls have gone missing; someone has
been killed. Who stands, watching, from the shadows? In the blur of this shared
consciousness, can Hyde ever be confident these crimes were not committed by
his hand?”
Review
Hyde is a chatty,
often entertaining POV-reversal take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Levine succeeds in making Hyde a
sympathetic character─a victim driven by damage-control circumstances,
blackmail and a dominant, uptight personality that is Dr. Jekyll. This is worth
reading if you can put up with semi-regular rambling between important plot
points and character exchanges. To its credit, Hyde’s tone and other elements
match those of its source inspiration book despite its considerably longer length.
This is worth reading, checking out from the library.
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