Jamie's Book #13: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Again, another classic that surprised me. I thought there was a romance to it, but there is not. The story is told through the eyes of a laywer named John Gabriel Utterson, but of course it is really about his friend Dr. Jekyll, whose experiment to eliminate his inner evil, "Mr. Hyde," goes terribly wrong. Instead of separating from his inner devilish self, he finds that it becomes the stronger and more real version of him. Instead of taking a potion to become Mr. Hyde, he must drink it to remain Dr. Jekyll.

I enjoyed this story. At first I was worried it would be a difficult read, but once you get into it, it's pretty easy to catch on to. I love reading the original, as the story has been diluted by pop culture. I give this an 8/10

“He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point"

"He put the glass to his lips, and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth; and as I looked there came, I thought, a change—he seemed to swell—his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter—and at the next moment, I had sprung to my feet and leaped back against the wall, my arm raised to shield me from that prodigy, my mind submerged in terror.

“O God!” I screamed, and “O God!”again and again; for there before my eyes—pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death—there stood Henry Jekyll!"