Scan barcode
A review by bookiesanta
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
4.0
This was my Halloween book this year, and I can honestly say this is the best vampire book I've ever read. Which is to say...better than Dracula or Twilight. Or the Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter piece of crap.
No, the bar was not set high.
But I did really like Anno Dracula, the storyline of which is basically: Imagine if Dracula beat Van Helsing, started turning Londoners willy-nilly, then decided to marry Queen Victoria and usher in a vampire-friendly version of the British Empire. And then imagine Jack-The-Ripper was there, killing vampires. I couldn't recognize many of the various fictional characters who popped up, but the few I did (Dr Jekyll, Mycroft Holmes, Count Orlok) were well presented and ultimately fun. Newman's take on Vampires was smart, and I even (shock!) liked the love story. (Because there is some law that you can't write vampires without it ultimately being a love story)
No, the bar was not set high.
But I did really like Anno Dracula, the storyline of which is basically: Imagine if Dracula beat Van Helsing, started turning Londoners willy-nilly, then decided to marry Queen Victoria and usher in a vampire-friendly version of the British Empire. And then imagine Jack-The-Ripper was there, killing vampires. I couldn't recognize many of the various fictional characters who popped up, but the few I did (Dr Jekyll, Mycroft Holmes, Count Orlok) were well presented and ultimately fun. Newman's take on Vampires was smart, and I even (shock!) liked the love story. (Because there is some law that you can't write vampires without it ultimately being a love story)