“Dracula’s Child” By J.S. Barnes Review

Dracula returns. It has been some years since Jonathan and Mina Harker survived their ordeal in Transylvania and, vanquishing Count Dracula, returned to England to try and live ordinary lives. But shadows linger long in this world of blood feud and superstition – and, the older their son Quincy gets, the deeper the shadows that lengthen at the heart of the Harkers’ marriage. Jonathan has turned back to drink; Mina finds herself isolated inside the confines of her own family; Quincy himself struggles to live up to a family of such high renown. And when a gathering of old friends leads to unexpected tragedy, the very particular wounds in the heart of the Harkers’ marriage are about to be exposed.

I need to give this book a huge applause to the author of this book because reading this book gave the same feeling and vibe as reading “Dracula” by Bram Stoker.

This book is an unofficial sequel to Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”, and wow this book is amazing. We get all the original characters from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” like Van Helsing, Mina Harker, Jonathan Harker, Jack Seward and Arthur. 

Its important to say that this book is much longer than Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”, but its fully worth reading this book despite its size. 

The plot here continues the plot from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” but its 10 years or so after the events of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. The plot is very interesting, engaging and very thrilling. Its very hard to put this book down because the moment you start reading this book you get completely sucked into it and you wont be able to put this book down.  

The original characters from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” we get in this book are as good as in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. If I need to be bold a little bit and say that the original characters from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” are even better in this book than in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”.

We also get new characters in this book, and the new characters are also very very good. They might not have same nostalgia as the original characters have but they are still very very good and each of them have their unique personalities and something which makes them stand out from the rest.

The writing style here feels like it was written by Bram Stoker, because it has the same feeling as Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. It just proves how good of an author the author of this book is.

however the ending here was not as great as the rest of the book, which is the reason why I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5. The whole books builds to the huge ending and in reality the ending was very weak and I was very angry about the ending.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

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