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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
Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder
Moderate: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, Xenophobia, Blood
Minor: Suicide
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Infidelity, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Blood, Murder
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicide, Torture, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Classism
Minor: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, 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
It’s funny, only a little creepy and definitely worth a read!
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Child death, Mental illness
Minor: Animal death, Suicide
Overall I did enjoy Dracula and I’m glad I finally sat down and read it. It’s certainly not without its flaws but I think it’s worth reading if you haven’t already.
“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical content, Murder
Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Child death, Drug use, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Body horror, Self harm, Slavery, Suicide, Vomit