The book is a marvel of weaving Stoker’s Dracula – a book so full of obnoxious, overbearing men – with a woman’s strength and control. What she doesn’t understand is that she is more than she thinks she is and older than time. She has been having disturbing dreams, dreams she doesn’t understand and dreams she cannot tell anyone about for fear of being deemed insane. She is engaged to Jonathan Harker, a young solicitor.
She is very controlled as is desired for women of the Victorian era.
Mina Murray is a child of Irish descent currently teaching in a very proper school for young ladies. As a reader you feel immersed almost in a mystical fog that pulls you along. Essex’s delightful tale I do believe it helped me understand it on a different level than if I had not read it.ĭracula in Love sets a mood from the very first page. I read Bram Stoker’s classic book, Dracula, several years ago and while not necessary to enjoy Ms. While this book is called Dracula in Love it is really Mina’s tale. Essex’s novels are published in twenty-seven languages. What this flesh and blood woman has to say is more sensual, more devious, and more enthralling than the Victorians could have expressed or perhaps even have imagined.Leonardo’s Swans, a runaway bestseller in Italy, won the prestigious 2007 Premio Roma for foreign fiction. Now, for the first time, the truth of Mina’s personal voyage, and of vampirism itself, is revealed. Time falls away as she is swept into a mythical journey far beyond mortal comprehension, where she must finally make the decision she has been avoiding for almost a millennium.īram Stoker’s classic novel offered one side of the story, in which Mina had no past and bore no responsibility for the unfolding events. Mina’s version of this gothic vampire tale is a visceral journey into Victorian England’s dimly lit bedrooms, mist-filled cemeteries, and asylum chambers, revealing the dark secrets and mysteries locked within. In this wonderfully transporting novel, award-winning author Karen Essex turns a timeless classic inside out, spinning a haunting, erotic, and suspenseful story of eternal love and possession.įrom the shadowy banks of the river Thames to the wild and windswept Yorkshire coast, Dracula’s eternal muse, Mina Murray, vividly recounts the intimate details of what really transpired between her and the Count-the joys and terrors of a passionate affair that has linked them through the centuries, and her rebellion against her own frightening preternatural powers.
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