A review by rucha
Dracula by Bram Stoker

5.0

as a young lawyer, Jonathan assigned to go to Transylvania and meet his new client, Count Dracula who wants to move from his land to England. on his way to the Count’s place, every person that Jonathan met treated him strangely, as if telling him not to go to Dracula’s Castle. a view days after staying at the castle, Jonathan found out he was being locked inside his room by the Count himself, as if Jonathan was a prisoner. when strange things started happening and Jonathan learned the true identity of Count Dracula, it was already too late, for The Count was long gone and fled to England. knowing that England are in a great danger, together with his wife, Mina, Jonathan teamed up with their friends, Arthur, Dr. Seward, and Quincey, to hunt Count Dracula. helped by a experienced Professor named Van Helsing, they began their quest to find the place where Dracula lays hidden.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH! It is amazing! this is my first time reading this book and also I never watched any of its movie adaptations before (except Van Helsing, and the story was totally different, of course!). I have no idea why I never read it until Clara from @thebookwormofnotredame did a readalong of this book, and now I’m totally fascinated by it! I love the writing style and the story. I really enjoy the concept of sums up the stories through Journals, Diary, Letters, News Articles, and Telegrams, that was superb! I might a bit unsatisfied with the lackness on the background story of every characters, but I found that their unique characteristics mesmerized me!

I definitely recommend this book to you, if you love to read gothic classic with amazing story and veiled by lots of mystery that takes time to be revealed. however, if you don’t like a slow pace kind of story, I don’t know whether you going to like it or not, but my advice is “give it a try!”.