Dracula

Title: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Pages: 448
Published Date: January 1st 1994 (originally 1900)
Publisher: Penguin Popular Classics
Cover Rating: D
Book Rating: D

Dracula is a unique horror masterpiece and the most famous of all vampyre tales. Dracula recounts the struggle of a group of men and a woman - Dr Seward, Dr Van Helsing and Jonathan Harken and his wife Mina- to destroy the vampyre, whose sinister earth-filled coffins are discovered by Harker in a ruined chapel adjoining Dr Seward's asylum. Cruel and noble, evilly and fatally desireable to women, Dracula possesses a terrifying lust for power and, like Dr Jekyll or Conan Doyle's Moritary is one of the immortal fictional monsters.

Ok, I read it because it s vampyre classic... I HAD TO read it.

I expected very much of this book but I am sorry to say I did not like it that much. It takes place ina Victorian era, so you will have dark landscapes, places with a lot of creepy and cool descriptions. Stoker has a lot of information about the era (and its backgrounds) and he uses his information in a very good and intersting way to make his story.

The begining was awesome, **SPOILER** I felt the panic that Harker was living trapped in the castle as he discovered that the Count was a vampyre! He could not get out and Dracula (and his wives) wanted to kill him!!... but then it turns out to be a bit boring and had the things that happen were developing very slow until pretty much the end.
I also was waiting for a grand finale but instead I felt it was quite rushed, as if Stoker wanted to finish his novel as soon as he could.

An interesting fact is that Dracula is not the typical creature who is old and bloody and threatens to take this civilised and ordered world back to the dark ages.
This is not my favourite vampyre book, but it is ok. Stoker did a good job for an 1897 novel :)