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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
"Women are so weak, emotional, and less intelligent. Brb I need to go hug my bros and cry while we listen to the smartest person in this book come up with a plan. Yes, it's a woman, BUT she has a man-brain so it's different." Lol
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It took me more than a year to get through this. Now I know, classics are written in fancy english and extra details and I was willing to put up with it in return for the feeling of "I'VE FINISHED A CLASSIC".
But oh lord, was it a pain to get through. I'm also confused if people actually talked or thought like this in the old days or is it polished by authors? I don't think I went 5 pages without a long rant about friendship and bravery and all the character platonically drooling over each other and be willing to die for each other. Like, it IS cute but I was expected more horrifying stuff from the original DRACULA.
It felt like a story less about the vampire Dracula and more about the power of friendship, men wanting to protect women and women loving being protected by men.
The first half was incredibly tedious and I couldn't get through the women writing 20 pages about how much they love their man and the men writing 20 pages about a tree. I enjoyed the second half more, which had some action, with a considerably high amount of friendship-loyalty-bravery stuff. But still, some action.
I hadn't really consumed any media related to Dracula so I didn't have a lot of expectations except a cool story about Dracula. Even that wasn't fulfilled. The lack of Dracula and the overabundance of platonic love in a book called "Dracula" was painful.
I did enjoy some parts and have an attatchment to old horror legends, so 3 stars it is.
But oh lord, was it a pain to get through. I'm also confused if people actually talked or thought like this in the old days or is it polished by authors? I don't think I went 5 pages without a long rant about friendship and bravery and all the character platonically drooling over each other and be willing to die for each other. Like, it IS cute but I was expected more horrifying stuff from the original DRACULA.
It felt like a story less about the vampire Dracula and more about the power of friendship, men wanting to protect women and women loving being protected by men.
The first half was incredibly tedious and I couldn't get through the women writing 20 pages about how much they love their man and the men writing 20 pages about a tree. I enjoyed the second half more, which had some action, with a considerably high amount of friendship-loyalty-bravery stuff. But still, some action.
I hadn't really consumed any media related to Dracula so I didn't have a lot of expectations except a cool story about Dracula. Even that wasn't fulfilled. The lack of Dracula and the overabundance of platonic love in a book called "Dracula" was painful.
I did enjoy some parts and have an attatchment to old horror legends, so 3 stars it is.
Despite the purple prose and what now seem like clichés, this was a perfectly creepy page turner (somehow in all these years I'd never read the book or seen any of the movies) - great Halloween read!
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
An interesting approach of writing. The format in which the story is presented gives an unique experience to the reader. The story itself is really captivating and astonishing for the time it has been written.
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
As my first epistolary novel, I found it very easy to read and with a full extent of the events throughout the novel. It is an easy, comprehensible novel who most readers will enjoy.
