Lora R. (lorabanora) reviewed on 12/31/2008 + 157 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

Excellent reading, and for all my spooky reading over the years, this one I did not read at night. Finely tuned creepy mood, without overdoing the bloodletting. Enthralling and yes, long descriptive passages which I usually enjoy. If you like long and descriptive, then you'll have the patience to get thru this. If you want A to B to C action, this is going to drive you nuts. I cared about the characters and I was glad to see a fresh retelling of the Dracula mythos. The one downside is that there were a few too many scenes where the protagonists did their research, travelled far, went on these study binges, and then had little to go on and had to start over. A couple of those could have been pared back, maybe. The scenes that built the creepiness started to wear down, too, because they had the same repetition of build mood, evil entity never quite appears, leave protagonist exhausted and in despair. As a reader I couldn't sustain my creeped outedness for that long, I sort of got used to it, which is a little bit of a shame. But it would be a challenge to anyone to write that much mood and keep it going consistently. Still it was very compelling and I often couldn't put it down.

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