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Title: Great idea and first four chapters, but goes downhill from there
Review: Although Stoker is not the greatest at creating sympathetic human characters, I really enjoyed his now infamous monstrosities, Dracula and the weird sisters. The Transylvanian setting is commendable as well. Unfortunately (and this is terrible), it seems that Bram Stoker did not realize his true talent. The rest of this story is mostly about his flat human characters from London, the most annoying of which is Mina, who tries to act mysterious by giving Van Helsing an unintelligible diary as a joke. The most redeeming aspect of the rest of the novel is Lucy's suspenseful struggle against death, but after she finally dies, the author really has nothing left going for him. This is the trendsetting vampire novel however, so I highly recommend it nonetheless.
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