From Amazon.com
In this sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula, his great-grandnephew offers one of the rowdiest revisionist treatments of the most influential vampire novel ever written. In 1912, as Stoker labors to adapt Dracula for the stage, its characters are dying gruesomely all over London. It turns out they are as real as Stoker himself, who learned their secret story on the sly and took creative liberties when turning it into his popular penny dreadful. Dracula's true story involves the passing of his blood line through Mina Harker to her son; a malignant Dr. Van Helsing, who Scotland Yard suspects had a hand in the murders attributed to Jack the Ripper; and the exploits of a 16th-century vampire countess, Dracula's former lover, who cuts a bloody swath through London seeking the survivors of Dracula's last stand in Transylvania. Energetically paced and packed with outrageously entertaining action, this supernatural thriller is a well-needed shot of fresh blood for the Dracula mythos. (Oct.)
My thoughts:
Dracula the Undead was an interesting read. I felt like it could have been a little better. There were more slow times than there was action. I'm not saying it was horrible just not what I expected. Dracula the Undead is an okay sequel. I definitely think the first book was better!
I also didn't like this one at all. But, I'll admit that I'm also a Dracula purist, so I found it so very, very disappointing. I wrote a review about it as well, I'd love to get your thoughts on it! Coffee and a Book Chick -- Dracula the Undead
ReplyDeleteRead The Historian instead by Elizabeth Kostova!! Excellent book.