Avec Dracula mon amour, Syrie James revisite l’histoire, que dis-je, le mythe du célèbre vampire et en fait une histoire d’amour sombre et torturé bien loin de l’oeuvre originale de Bram Stoker. L’idée de départ est simple et plutôt sympathique : et si les journaux et autres comptes-rendus établi...
Compared to Dracula in Love this is like a shining beacon of literary achievement, but... it's still not great. It's readable, but only if you like every single piece of villainy Dracula committed in the novel either excused and explained away OR transferred to be the fault of the ~heroes. I can ...
I went to Savers and they had a booksale. I was going over every shelf and couldn't find anyhing that appeals to me. I found this book and when I started reading it,I was instantly hooked. I've finished reading this book four days after reading this. It keeps me on the edge. Whenever I finished a...
I want to be clear that I love Jane Austen and I empathize with the desire to wield her pen. But that doesn't excuse this book.The premise here is that Jane Austen wrote a seventh novel that was stolen, and is found in the present by an Austen enthusiast. The entire text of this "found novel" is ...
This was a really good read about an Austen enthusiast, Samantha, who discovers a letter written by Jane Austen indicating she misplaced a manuscript while visiting friends. Samantha immediately begins searching for the manuscript, finds it, and devours it. The novel is cut between the text of ...
I had such high hopes for this novel, and it was not what I wanted it to be. I loved the story of finding the manuscript and all that it entailed, but the manuscript dragged on. My focus was forced onto an attempt to duplicate Austen's work instead of the story outside the manuscript (which was f...