Irena R. (acorn2tree) - reviewed on 11/8/2008 + 3 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

I thot this was a good read until the last part of the book. I literally sat down and read this book except for the last 20 pages in about a half day (this includes having 4 kids home so you do the math), but those last 20 pgs took me another half a day. I liked the fact that she put more detail into the journal of Mina to finish off the original Dracula story. The middle of the book describes Mina's dissatisfaction with her sexual life. She seeks outside of her marriage for a man who reminds her of Dracula. She takes no responsibility for her longing for sexual satisfaction, she blames it all on the fact that Dracula introduced his blood into her. It it his blood that causes her to be unfulfilled. Finally, the part that just killed the book for me is that she decides to "save" Dracula (and his brides) with the church that Dracula once belonged to. I guess if I was that unhappy with my sex life and and had spent the last few months longing for Dracula I would have went to join him, not try to kill him. But faced with eternal damnation, who truly knows what one would do? And really, do you think, that killing Dracula would cure her of wanting a better sex life? Yeah, me neither.

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