Lush, mysterious, and unabashedly sensual, Essex pulls out all the stops and actually, in my opinion, improves on Stoker's novel. This book will send shivers up and down your spine and in a good way. The book is being touted on the back cover as TWILIGHT for grown-ups, which is almost an insult, because it is so much better than that and better written (I'm not a huge Twilight fan although I can just imagine the T-shirts saying Team Jonathan and Team Dracula!). Just look at that fabulous cover, a woman in a gorgeous Victorian dress, running through a graveyard, with a look of fear and anticipation on her face. I'm happy to say that she didn't disappoint me, and in fact exceeded my expectations. As an old friend once said, "if it ain't broke," but I jumped at the chance to review Karen Essex's DRACULA IN LOVE because I'm a huge fan of her previous books. So I'm pretty particular about other adaptations of the book. My favorite will always be Frank Langella in DRACULA based on the Balderston and Deane play. Something about him draining the nasty syphilitic blood and replacing it with his blood). And I've seen pretty much every adaptation known to man including the last BBC miniseries that had Dracula as a cure for syphilis (don't ask, it didn't make sense to me either. I have been a fan of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, ever since I first read the book in high school.
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