What a lovely and charming book. I loved that we are introduced to wonderful everyday people and see how the books impacted them in their lives. I love that the books is a series of letters written amongst the characters. It reminds me of the days when we used to actually write to each other and ...
I want to make a confession. This is the first vampire book I've ever read. I've never been interested in vampires, ghosts, werewolves and other manifestations of superstition and the supernatural. Indeed, for as long as I can remember, I've avoided horror - gothic and otherwise - in both literature...
I'm glad that I listened to it since it's a classic and it inspired so many other works. However, it is fairly dated in pacing and structure. I enjoyed it but felt perhaps some of the longer speeches (many of Van Helsing's) could have been cut out without any loss of clarity. Also, the ending felt a...
The only reason I am not giving this a 5 star rating is because I found several references to animal cruelty during the war to be too disturbing for me personally, and they severely detracted from my pure enjoyment of this book. The narration was outstanding - I loved having the multiple narrators...