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Rebecca Johns
Rebecca Johns's first novel, ICEBERGS, was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Award. Her second, THE COUNTESS--a fictionalization of the life of Elizabeth Bathory, the "Blood Countess"--was published in October 2010... show more

Rebecca Johns's first novel, ICEBERGS, was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Award. Her second, THE COUNTESS--a fictionalization of the life of Elizabeth Bathory, the "Blood Countess"--was published in October 2010 from Crown Books and subsequently around the world. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, StoryQuarterly, the Mississippi Review, Printer's Row Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Ladies' Home Journal, Self, and Seventeen, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Missouri School of Journalism, she teaches in the English Department at DePaul University in Chicago.
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Bücher, Bücher, 100000 Bücher
Bücher, Bücher, 100000 Bücher rated it 11 years ago
I'm so very disappointed. This was not what I had expected. At all. I might've given more stars if I hadn't thought this would be about a serial killer and, you know, serial killing... I was incredibly bored throughout the whole book. From start to finish. So bored...
In laywoman's terms
In laywoman's terms rated it 12 years ago
I didn't disliked this book. Can't say I loved it either. It presented a nice look into what nobility had to face to remain wealthy and powerful. Something I didn't like about the way the book was written was the lack of an element of surprise. As soon as a character was introduced the author gave a...
Tiny Library
Tiny Library rated it 13 years ago
Countess Elizabeth Bathory is known to history as a blood-thirsty Hungarian murderess who bathed in the blood of virgins in order to stay young. Like Vlad Tepes (Dracula), her name is linked to vampire legends. In The Countess, Rebecca Johns presents a literary version of the life of Erzsebet Bath...
Reading with a Vengeance
Reading with a Vengeance rated it 13 years ago
A poorly paced and utterly soulless offering. This book stretched out over the entire life of the main character, which means almost every page was nothing but a summary of several years at once. There was no attempt to tell a story or examine any of the characters involved. It just plodded along...
A Book and A Review #2
A Book and A Review #2 rated it 13 years ago
First, let me premise that this book is written very well. Now with that out of the way, I cannot help but take the premise that this author was writing from a perspective that Bathory was some innocent, helpless, innocent victim instead of the vicious murderess that she was. There was many a time w...
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