SuitabookJekel loves Hyde
Beth Fantaskey
- Reading
- Read alongside the original Jekyll-and-Hyde story if useful, pausing to compare how each work treats transformation and secrecy. Check in after the early family losses and later violent situations; the ending and resolution remain unclear.
- Themes
- Inherited identity and responsibility: Tristen believes a family curse may turn him into a violent killer, while Jill’s formula-related transformation is described as unleashing her darkest nature. The book leaves its stance open to more than one reading.
- Romance amid danger: Jill and Tristen’s growing relationship develops while they recreate dangerous experiments and confront violent or threatening behaviour. The book presents competing or mixed signals about this.
- Science, ambition and secrecy: Jill seeks scholarship money and works with Tristen to recreate experiments linked to the classic story, despite secrets and potentially dangerous consequences. Scientific ambition is connected to practical need and possible rescue, but the experiments are also framed as risky and morally troubling rather than simply beneficial.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether the reader is comfortable with a story involving a murdered parent, a missing parent, family depression, feared transformation, violent behaviour, dangerous experiments and a romance affected by loss of control.