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Title: Get on with the story please!
Review: Whew! This book is in dire need of some serious editing. It all begins with overlapping narrators. It is difficult to keep the point of view (narrators) straight. The story has merit--who doesn't like Dracula stories?--but it bogs down in a travelogue filled with all sorts of people who become part of the narration. Narration quotes within quotes within quotes is ponderous. The author seems to suffer from new writer syndrome: in love with her words. There are too many of them! This book could be 200 pages shorter and more tightly written. The prime narrator (if one can figure out who that is at times) seems to be the father. Basically he comes across as a dimwit. I'm ambivalent as to whether or not I liked it. It had a few--very few--sparks of good story telling. But on the whole it was difficult to stay focused. I kept muttering: "For God's sake, get on with the story!" Recommendation: Read Bran Stoker's Dracula, you'll be better rewarded.
