Bloodthirsty Books: Dracula Review

Squeamish readers beware, Bram Stoker’s tale of horror approaches Gothic literature with fangs out. Told in narratives of diary entries and letters, readers feel as if they are in direct correspondence with the characters andtheir deadly encounters. Personally, I had a very different expectation of what Dracula was about before I was assigned to read it for class (which may or may not have been the Count from Sesame Street and Hotel Transylvania). 

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Oddly enough, Dracula was not in fact a friendly cartoon character, but a bloodthirsty, age-defying vampire that consumed the blood of some Londoners to enhance his strength and overall, be kind of the worst. Have no fear 19th century London, because Dr. Van Helsing and co. join together to form the ultimate vampire hunting band, sans Mina because she’s a woman and women MUST be fragile, right? A couple stakes through the heart and some garlic flower meals later, Dracula meets a tragic, uneventful end as he is killed sleeping in a coffin, which seems to be a pretty convenient place to die in my opinion. 

If you are a fan of suspense, trios of overly-seductive-vampire-mean-girls, creepy ships manned by a ghostly crew, and asylum patients obsessed with counting dead flies, Dracula may be the novel for you. 

For me, I may stick to Twilight.