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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Kiste states that she wanted to take back the stories of these women, Lucy from Dracula and Bertha from Jane Eyre, and give them the their fair take. She is very successful is this endeavor. I was quite familiar with Dracula and Lucy, but I have not read Jane Eyre. I think I got enough of an idea from Kiste to understand B's character.
I did have a couple issues with the book, I understand who Lucy in immortal, but I don't know why B or Edward Rochester is. Maybe if I read Jane Eyre there might be something there. Also the confrontations with Lucy, B, and Jane vs Dracula and Rochester just didn't land for me in my reading experience.
When you overlay this book and it's look back at Gothic literature and women's place in this stories with modern Hollywood, you can really see the parallels. The Me-Too movement does a similar thought, shining a light on the inequities in society. Kiste does an excellent job in bringing those two things into focus. A couple other things that were great was the comparison of vampirism to sexuality (and unwanted contact) and the look at the Summer of Love and the hippie culture.
I did have a couple issues with the book, I understand who Lucy in immortal, but I don't know why B or Edward Rochester is. Maybe if I read Jane Eyre there might be something there. Also the confrontations with Lucy, B, and Jane vs Dracula and Rochester just didn't land for me in my reading experience.
When you overlay this book and it's look back at Gothic literature and women's place in this stories with modern Hollywood, you can really see the parallels. The Me-Too movement does a similar thought, shining a light on the inequities in society. Kiste does an excellent job in bringing those two things into focus. A couple other things that were great was the comparison of vampirism to sexuality (and unwanted contact) and the look at the Summer of Love and the hippie culture.
I accept that Edward Rochester is walking red flag but even painting him as an outright villian cannot make me hate him.