A review by readingwitherin
Dracula by Bram Stoker

2.0

 

I’ve gone back and forth on if I should even write a review for this one, and I’ve decided to go ahead and write one just so I have my thoughts down somewhere. I did not enjoy this book. 

First this book is very long, and at times just way too drawn out for my liking because I felt like certain things could have been handled a lot easie and it was overly detailed at times. Second thing is that while I did learn some things about Dracula like how he is apparently related to Attila the Hun in a round about way which was interesting as I hadn’t read that anywhere else until now. Third I was expecting this book to be far scarier than it was. Now maybe it was at the time it was written, but overall I just found this book to be rather boring and none of what happened in it scary or even all that entertaining. Fourth so much of this book is just Jonathan and Dracula going back and forth about things,and then rushing here and their to try and fix them, when Dracula already knew what was happening, but no one was following his rules and then wondered why the bad things kept happening. Like really people come on. 

Overall this book was not for me, and I don’t know if I will be reading anything else by Stoker in the future.