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wannabekingpin's review against another edition
3.0
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About the Book: Family of Mina’s descendants has a book, a spell, a summoning of sorts, promising a help of a friend. It changes hands with a promise to never use it unless the need is truly immeasurable, up until Southerland family gets haunted by tragedy. Their eldest daughter dies, their youngest son – disappears… The only question is whether the help that’ll come will be worth the trouble family will sink into.
My Opinion: A very weak story. Powerful vampire wants to destroy Dracula’s rule, his laws, have vampires live freely, feed however they please. After chapters and chapters of her trying to paint Dracula as a villain, while her, and her little gang of lackeys behave like scum themselves, she just goes and accepts a possibility of good but improbable news. Meantime all the elder vampires, the council, seem to cower and grovel under anyone who raises their voice at them, for no logical reason. Characters were awfully two-dimensional, and, often – even less. Story fell short, lacked consistency, reason.
night mode reading ;
skaitom nakties rezimu
About the Book: Family of Mina’s descendants has a book, a spell, a summoning of sorts, promising a help of a friend. It changes hands with a promise to never use it unless the need is truly immeasurable, up until Southerland family gets haunted by tragedy. Their eldest daughter dies, their youngest son – disappears… The only question is whether the help that’ll come will be worth the trouble family will sink into.
My Opinion: A very weak story. Powerful vampire wants to destroy Dracula’s rule, his laws, have vampires live freely, feed however they please. After chapters and chapters of her trying to paint Dracula as a villain, while her, and her little gang of lackeys behave like scum themselves, she just goes and accepts a possibility of good but improbable news. Meantime all the elder vampires, the council, seem to cower and grovel under anyone who raises their voice at them, for no logical reason. Characters were awfully two-dimensional, and, often – even less. Story fell short, lacked consistency, reason.
pickleballlibrarian's review against another edition
5.0
Dracula is alive and in Chicago! He is using his supernatural abilities to help out the descedants of his lover Mina Harker.
zombiemaster's review
4.0
If you are a fan of Saberhagen's Sword series you owe to yourself to check our his Dracula series. This is the third in the series and it is just as entertaining as the first.
cdbnovelist's review
5.0
It's the Fred Saberhagen book which launched me onto the possibility of one day to write my own books. This is a great twist on a classic.
jamespatrickjoyce's review
3.0
Dracula has vowed an immortal guardianship of the family of his now-undead love, Mina Harker. The Southerlands are the current descendants, living in Chicago. Unfortunately, for them, Vlad has an ancient enemy who uses this link to set a trap for him. A brutal, bloody trap.
Honour, romance, blood, death, and the human struggle to fight for family and love, even in the face of impossible odds.
It all culminates in the kind of snowstorm that shuts down major cities, isolating everyone and ensuring that no help can come. Kate Southerland, her fiance (kind of) Joe, and her family are alone against an ancient vampire, a giant vampire, and the unknown.
Well... alone, except for one dedicated angel of vengeance: Vlad Tepes.
Still enjoying this series. Looking forward to [b:Thorn|16493|Thorn (Dracula Series, #4)|Fred Saberhagen|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1393479464l/16493._SY75_.jpg|18185].
Honour, romance, blood, death, and the human struggle to fight for family and love, even in the face of impossible odds.
It all culminates in the kind of snowstorm that shuts down major cities, isolating everyone and ensuring that no help can come. Kate Southerland, her fiance (kind of) Joe, and her family are alone against an ancient vampire, a giant vampire, and the unknown.
Well... alone, except for one dedicated angel of vengeance: Vlad Tepes.
Still enjoying this series. Looking forward to [b:Thorn|16493|Thorn (Dracula Series, #4)|Fred Saberhagen|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1393479464l/16493._SY75_.jpg|18185].
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