No More Mr. Dracula

As Dracula comes to an end for our group I am truly speechless. Not once, during any portion of the novel, was the story any bit horrifying. I expected more from the novel. Dracula to me seemed like it was more of an action/adventure story rather than a horror story when Van Helsing and the rest were in pursue of Dracula in order to bring his unholiness to an end.

Even though the book in a way disappointed me, I still found the story very interesting from the point where Lucy becomes one of the victims of the Count. At times the story felt like it was stretched, however, I found it still rather difficult to put the book down. In other words when the characters where looking for "x" they arrived to only discover a portion of it was somewhere else or not there at all. I found this annoying because it felt like the author was prolonging the "grand finale". For example, when they are tracking Dracula's fifty coffins, they arrive at Carfax to see that 21 are missing and are located in London (12 divided among two houses in London and 9 in Piccadilly). Later they discover that there are only 8 in Piccadilly. This "stretching" occurs again when they try to cut off Dracula in his route to his last coffin.

One scene that I found extremely strange was the one where Van Helsing and the others force their way into the Harkers' room to find Jonathan unconscious and Mina sipping from a wound on Dracula's chest. At first I thought I misread what was written, but then when I realized that I made no mistake, I could not respond in any way but "WTF?!?!?!"

Overall the novel was quite entertaining with a few "flaws" and should definitely be considered if one is exploring the horror genre (especially since it is free on Amazon Kindle).