by Rebecca Johns
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...
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...
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...
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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3.5 out of 5Erzsébet (or the Anglicized "Elizabeth") Báthory is as widely vilified and infamous as far as she is known today. The scandal of a noblewoman killing servants in order to live forever as one myth goes, or to punish them as an assertion of power as this novel posits, is guaranteed to garn...
*****This was a GoodReads Giveaway Win!*********Wow! This was a very interesting book. I feel like the author gave an edited view about the life of Elizabeth Bathory. But what a view it was. The style of writing had me in the 1600's. This is a very good book to read, well worth the trouble to f...
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