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Mina The Dracula Story Continues Marie Kiraly Books

This is really an interesting book, along with it's companion, Blood to Blood, as a sequel to the original Dracula novel. It is told from Mina's perspective - not her diary, as the original book, but as Mina the woman in the middle of all of this, and her struggles with the effects of her experiences in Dracula. It explores how those experiences have changed her, and her inner turmoil as she struggles with the fact that the alien blood of the beast still lives in her veins (more would be a spoiler, so I'll leave it at that).

My only real complaint is that Bergstrom has gone more for the later traits of the vampire than those of Bram Stoker. If she's going to market her novels as sequels, she needs to stay within the same mythos. Yet she seems to forget that Dracula was perfectly capable of coming out into the light of day. Those in her books are incapable of doing so. As with other vampire tales, the light of the sun will burn and destroy the vampire. Still, it's an interesting book (along with Blood to Blood) and well worth reading. It's also much easier to read than the original Dracula, which may or may not take away from the experience, depending upon your point of view.


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Mina The Dracula Story Continues Marie Kiraly Books Reviews

This book was a total surprise. I'd been looking for quite some time for a vampire novel that was a worthy sequel to the classic Dracula (as opposed to that horrible piece of work by one of Stoker's descendants). As one reviewer described it, "it's a real page turner" and that he "couldn't put it down". Well, I did put it down for a bit because it seemed to be weaving a dark spell over me, something no horror novel has done since, well, the original 'Dracula' itself. Yes, the characters are not "true" to the original,mainly because they have changed by the events in Dracula itself, and some have been sent into denial. Yes, Seward would commit Mina, because in his mind, Dracula had been destroyed. She was no longer under a curse and what she was suffering from would be simple depression. Duh. The original classic seemed to be a little too glib about Jonathan's and Mina's 'cure', i.e. that destruction of Dracula freed his living victims from the curse of vampirism. This book is predicated on a simple fact no they were not. Their blood is indeed still tainted and is working in them to draw them back to his castle, something that can only be dealt with by the mysticism of the Orthodox Church itself, which proves in the end to be Dracula's final destruction. This book is absolutely brilliant! Can't wait to read the next one.
Although Mina Harker harps on and on about passion and how she wants to enjoy it and life, this book lacked just those characteristics - passion and life.

Kiraly's book is a continuation of the Dracula story. It follows the Harkers as they attempt to settle into a normal life back in Exeter, believing they destroyed Dracula. Kiraly introduces some new characters and turns the story into a maudlin soap opera about Mina's sex life.

The characters were realistic enough in that I could imagine these being real people, but unfortunately, that didn't make me care about them. The main problem is that the characters have NO motivation - why does Jonathan Harker go trekking across eastern Europe to save Mina only to easily relinquish her into Gance's arms? What the hell was going on with Mina? Did she want Dracula? Did she want Gance? Better sex with Jonathan? Did she just want lots of sex with any man? I had no idea - Kiraly writes this character with no direction and no growth. And Gance - is he apathetic? Is he scared of death? Does he care for Mina or just want to use her? Again, NO idea.

Kiraly also does this weird thing where she mixes both the epistolary style and 3rd-person omniscient narration from multiple POVs - Jonathan's, Millicent's, Mina's, and Gance's. She'll write a few chapters from Mina's journal then return to the 3rd person narration. It's disconcerting and makes it even MORE difficult to identify with the main characters.

There were 3 characters I actually empathized with in the book and none of them were in the original novel - Mina's friend Winnie, Winnie's husband, and Jonathan's aunt Millicent. They were complex, especially Aunt Millicent who has a sad past which is hinted at and who is prissy, but loves Jonathan and tries to be good to him and to Mina (whom she is suspicious of). These character's motivations were believable and sympathetic and they made sense.

And then there's Dracula. He's not scary. He's not monstrous. He's not sensual or seductive. He's not evil. He's not good either. He's just so...BLAH. I have no idea why Mina would be fascinated by him - he seemed boring and silly. And he's not even in a good portion of this book, which is OKAY, but when he WAS in the book, he didn't really add much to the scene.

This book might sound kind of "trashily" erotic, but despite a few sex scenes, it's really NOT, because you don't care about anyone and there's no anticipation. And the book takes itself way too seriously for us to be giggling or enjoying any sort of camp factor.

SO disappointing - I wouldn't waste my time.
This is a powerfully-told story, exploring the ramifications of the experiences Mina had during the original novel even after "it was all over". It accepts some of the conclusions (drawn by characters, after all, and therefore not necessarily accurate) of the original novel, disregards others, and weaves a delightfully powerful tale of a Victorian woman who had been exposed to feelings that she was not "supposed" to be capable of trying to fit herself back into the limited role her society expected of her, and not succeeding.
Great story about Mina. Another good read for Dracula fans!
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This is really an interesting book, along with it's companion, Blood to Blood, as a sequel to the original Dracula novel. It is told from Mina's perspective - not her diary, as the original book, but as Mina the woman in the middle of all of this, and her struggles with the effects of her experiences in Dracula. It explores how those experiences have changed her, and her inner turmoil as she struggles with the fact that the alien blood of the beast still lives in her veins (more would be a spoiler, so I'll leave it at that).

My only real complaint is that Bergstrom has gone more for the later traits of the vampire than those of Bram Stoker. If she's going to market her novels as sequels, she needs to stay within the same mythos. Yet she seems to forget that Dracula was perfectly capable of coming out into the light of day. Those in her books are incapable of doing so. As with other vampire tales, the light of the sun will burn and destroy the vampire. Still, it's an interesting book (along with Blood to Blood) and well worth reading. It's also much easier to read than the original Dracula, which may or may not take away from the experience, depending upon your point of view.