Waiting on Wednesday - 'Hyde' by Daniel Levine

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine. It is a weekly event, hosted here, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. I'm relatively bad at keeping up with new releases, but now that I'm more on it with my Netgalley so I know what's coming up. This week I'm featuring Hyde by Daniel Levine. The publishing date is the 18th of March 2014. Since I got it on Netgalley, I will probably review it before then!

In this reimagining of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the monster’s perspective, Hyde makes a hero of a villain. 

Mr. Hyde is hiding, trapped in Dr. Jekyll’s surgical cabinet, counting the hours until capture. As four days pass, he has the chance, finally, to tell the story of his brief, marvelous life. 

We join Hyde, awakened after years of dormancy, in the mind he hesitantly shares with Jekyll. We spin with dizzy confusion as the potions take effect. We tromp through the dark streets of Victorian London. We watch Jekyll’s high-class life at a remove, blurred by a membrane of consciousness. We feel the horror of lost time, the helplessness of knowing we are responsible for the actions of a body not entirely our own. 

Girls have gone missing. Someone has been killed. The evidence points to Mr. Hyde. Someone is framing him, terrorizing him with cryptic notes and whisper campaigns. Who can it be? Even if these crimes weren’t of his choosing, can they have been by his hand? 

Though this classic has been often reinvented, no one ever imagined Hyde’s perspective, or that he could be heroic. Daniel Levine changes that. A mesmerizing gothic, Hyde tells the fascinating story of an underexamined villain.

This just sounds like it will be really good! I love Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.

What do you think? And what is the book you're waiting for?