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Graphic: Violence, Blood
Graphic: Death, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content
Moderate: Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Death of parent
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Murder
Moderate: Racial slurs
After all that epic build up I would've wanted a lot more pay off. Also this was definitely of its time with all the racial stereotyping and gender roles.
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism
Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cannibalism, Gaslighting
Minor: Gun violence
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Blood
Minor: Gore, Grief, Stalking
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Death, Death of parent
I grew up loving gothic stories, especially those that included vampires. “Dracula” is truly just one of the best. For a story over a century old, it reads so easily. With lovable characters, an eerie setting, and an engaging plot, what’s there to go wrong???
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexism, Xenophobia, Stalking
Minor: Death of parent, War
Dracula by Bram Stoker was a buddy read with a friend. This was...not an enjoyable read. I understand it is a classic and written in a time where long winded descriptions were expected, but damn it made hard to get through.
Dracula is told in a series of letters and personal journal entries with news articles and telegrams interspersed between. We follow Jonathan Harker, a solicitor who has come to Castle Dracula to help Dracula in purchasing a property in London. Jonathon experiences some weird stuff that ends up making him ill.
We also follow Mina, fiancee of Jonathon, worrying over her friend Lucy, who has begun sleep walking and becoming pale and sickly for seemingly no reason. After Lucy's death, all of her suitors come together with Mina and Jonathan to figure out what is going on and to stop the Count.
Mina deserves way more credit than she gets in this book. Mina is clever and is solely responsible for rallying the men to her cause and is the one to put together all the information in order to come to the conclusion of vampires. Dracula's death (spoiler alert lol) was very anticlimactic. Stoker does a lot of telling instead of showing.
We see themes on superstition and how important it is to consider the grain of truth within as well as the ever present theme of humans being afraid of their souls becoming damned.
I skimmed most of this book, since most of the information could have been cut back. Glad to have read it, even more glad to be done with it.
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Blood
Moderate: Death, Blood
Minor: Body horror, Racial slurs, Forced institutionalization