A review by ellenigrace
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.5

Did its job of being a vampire book, though not a horror novel, and didn't blow me away. The ending frustrated me
because I didn't love that after spending a whole book freeing themselves from a man, Constanta and Magdalena ended up semi-abandoning their new lives for a different man.
I also think that if you're going to say in the blurb that the book is about Dracula, you shouldn't break Dracula canon the one time you allude to that fact?
Even if we allow that he couldn't die in the way he does in Dracula, the fact that the women have to explain who the Harkers were to Alexi means that at that point Dracula only had two brides, not three like in Stoker's canon. A very nitpicky point but it pulled me out of the narrative.
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