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Dracula by Bram Stoker

435 reviews

jairereads's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Banger from front to back. Oh Irish people, thank you for making me fall in love with the English language time and time again. Also, this about solidifies horror as my favorite book genre. I'm a happy boy.

I'm gonna be quoting Van Helsing's "King Laughter" monologue for the rest of my life.

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senhorita_beatriz's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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dimblossom's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional sad tense 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: Yes

It started really good but the pacing in the last half made it a bit tedious to get through. That’s also in addition to the purple prose and long monologues. While I overall liked this book, there were a lot of things that made it difficult to get through without the audiobook

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solegatta's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Brilliant. I wasn’t sure I was going to get into it while reading part 1 but I stuck it out. I think the fact that the book is written as journal entries took some time to get used to but wow. It was so good. I’m going to read it again because I know I missed a lot of minor details the first time around. I definitely recommend following a study guide while reading it - there is so much subtext to unpack. I understand why this is a much loved classic.

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shiru_8's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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august_slippedaway's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Best book ever! A must read!

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falduuuu's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

As a lover of classic literature, it was beautiful. I love the characters' desperation to understand what the hell is going on. Sublime.

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grillycheese's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I really enjoyed listening to this on audio. I think my favorite voice was Dr. Seward, because it really made his character come to life. However, I expected there to be a lot....more of Dracula than there was. I was a smidge disappointed that there was more planning about fighting him than there was about actually fighting.

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