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Graphic: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content
Moderate: Child death, Sexism, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood
Moderate: Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Misogyny, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Medical content
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Sexism, Xenophobia, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Antisemitism, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail
Okay now that that's out of my system, I have to confess, I read this book is a rather unorthodox fashion, as part of the Dracula Daily emails, whereby the letters in the book are emailed out to readers on the corresponding dates. It's a fun idea for an epistolary novel and I found that it suited the format well. However, did I manage to keep up with those emails? Heck no! In fact, I only managed to finish it now, a month after the book has ended, because I started copying the emails into a text-to-speech bot and listening to months at a time.
The above being said, I really enjoyed my first experience with Dracula! I especially loved the characters of Mina and Van Helsing, and Jonathan "wifeguy" Harker gets a mention too. Although the book some times suffered for it's period typical Christianity and sexism, it was refreshing how Stoker broke free of that at times and allowed Mina to be more than just the wife in jeopardy. Like every man in this book, I too would give my life for Mina Harker at the drop of a hat.
In term of the ending, it did feel somewhat anti-climatic. I understand that an outright fight between Dracula and the party would have ended in Dracula's survival, but I was expecting more than just a quick brawl with a group of unnamed (and unimportant) men and them stabbing the Count as he slept.
Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Sexism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Terminal illness, Death of parent
Minor: Cursing, Alcohol
All in all, an interesting read, but a good bit of the charm and suspense is lost to the changing principals of time.
Graphic: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Classism
Moderate: Ableism, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Drug use, Misogyny, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Colonisation