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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
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
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Animal death, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Medical content, Death of parent, Classism
Minor: Chronic illness, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Alcohol
Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical trauma
Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical content, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cultural appropriation, Colonisation
Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Misogyny, Xenophobia, Medical content, Stalking, Death of parent, Classism
Minor: Sexual content, Terminal illness
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: Ableism, Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Stalking
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Blood, Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent
Minor: Homophobia, Xenophobia