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Dracula

Bram Stoker

3.84 AVERAGE


"I love this book!!" "Really? Then tell me what happened in the last one hundred pages." "... vampire circumcision?"
I have absolutely no idea what happened in this book, so do not ask me. There where vampires. There was romantic tension between Mina and the vampire woman who was named something with a J. There was a token American. There was... there were hot vampire ladies. Three of them. Do we count the british vampire? Is she british? Anyways, I liked this book a lot. It definitely wasn't perfect, but it was a fine read nonetheless.
If I had to say, I would have recommended less useless dialogue. Also, I think the moment I truly started skipping pages was when the awful accents came in. Seriously, I couldn't read that at all.
adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Dracula: the original babygirl
adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous dark tense fast-paced

first part was the coolest & then it dragged on at the end i think

Enjoyed for the writing style, and the drama, but overall wasn't my favorite classic. Maybe the subject matter is just less interesting to me? Still a very good book.
adventurous dark mysterious sad 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: Complicated
adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The actual vampire bits? Great.
Most of the rest of it? Mediocre.
I enjoyed the first half of the book (especially the unintentionally funny, oblivious Jonathan and the cemetery scene) but my interest waned as the plot progressed, or rather, became entirely composed of planning to defeat Dracula, leading up to the most anticlimactic "final boss battle" I've ever read. Stoker also seems to try too hard to qualify vampirism, info dumping about four long explanations.