A couple years ago when I started getting more into books, I was surfing the Barnes and Noble site and I found the leather back classics and I was IN LOVE! being a fan of everything Dracula, I had never read the original story that started it all. So Dracula became the first purchase in the leather back Barnes and Noble editions to start off my eventual collection.
Fast forward to 2019 and I still have not read it and made it a priority to read it for Halloween this year. SURPRISE SURPRISE, I did not get to it till November 1st and it is now November 12 and I am just now finishing it. It was a long one and very difficult to get through. It was not what I was expecting and still don't know how to feel about it. The main feeling I can name right off the bat is disappointment.
I am disappointed because I wanted more about Dracula himself and would have loved some of the story to be from his POV. I also found myself getting the characters confusing and mixed up and I had to go back several times to see who's journal entry I was reading. The characters were not differentiated. They all sounded the same and it was boring at times.
While reading this, I also kept thinking about the show Dracula that aired a couple years on NBC that starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I loved that show and hated that it was cancelled because it was really freaking good.
I will not go into detail what this book is about because everyone knows what Dracula is.... a VAMPIRE!
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