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Simon Prebble
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Dacre Stoker
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Ian Holt
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Van Helsing's protégé, Dr. Jack Seward, is now a disgraced morphine addict obsessed with stamping out evil across Europe. Meanwhile, an unknowing Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school for the London stage, only to stumble upon the troubled production of Dracula directed and produced by Bram Stoker himself. The play plunges Quincey into the world of his parents' terrible secrets, but before he can confront them, he experiences evil in a way he had never imagined. One by one, the band of heroes that defeated Dracula a quarter-century ago is being hunted down. Could it be that Dracula somehow survived their attack and is seeking revenge? Or is their another force at work whose relentless purpose is to destroy anything and anyone associated with Dracula?
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- Carmen
- 03-14-24
A different take
I really like this as a “stand alone” story. If you are a Dracula fan this is a must listen
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- Noe
- 10-30-09
Dracula Re-Imagined....
First, this is a very entertaining book with a flawless narration by Simon Prebble. I enjoyed it immensely. Less of a sequel and more of a "re-imagining," this novel is built on the premise that Bram Stoker, in his original book, distorted the truth about the ancient vampire's motives and purpose. Prince (not Count) Dracula, it turns out, has been grossly misunderstood. Successful in capturing the mood and tone of the original, "Dracula the Un-Dead" also brings back the first book's principal characters, rejoining their lives 25 years after the events of the previous book. Though the story suffers from a few disturbing inconsistencies and several plot twists and action scenes obviously designed for Hollywood, it is a commendable effort that should please most fans of the original Bram Stoker novel.
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- Amber
- 09-05-18
Amazing sequel to a horror Classic!!
I was enthralled with the entire story and could not stop listening to it until I finished it! This is a must read or rather listen to story.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-16-24
nothing to do with the original
pretty bad, it’s like he didn’t read the original and based this of a movie not really worth the listen or read
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- C.J.
- 05-21-21
Not a true sequel. Fan fiction at best
First and foremost... while the story uses all the same characters and settings while introducing a new 'big bad' to fear, Dacre spent good portions of his sequel outright saying (not insinuating) that the original Dracula story was a poorly written fiction put together by a failed writer / playwright. Dacre purports to have written this sequel based on Bram Stoker's notes, and identifies that the original release is not the WHOLE story as it was cut apart to make it palatable by readers of the time, but he changes so much of the mythos as to have been a completely different story barely if at all connected to the original by names only.
So, taken as a stand-alone book and not a sequel, the book still has numerous problems. He changes character motivations and attitudes from the beginning of his own book to the end with no real reason for the turn. The book feels more like Dacre wanted to change the original Dracula mythos to be in line with the current genre offerings with more sex, power, and animalistic lust. He leans hard on the crutch of blaming Bram Stoker for being a bad writer throughout, rather than just developing solid motivations for his newly minted versions of old characters. The plot twists can be seen coming from a mile away so the surprises are really just 'yah I know' moments. He uses 'blood memory' as a way to add an invisible narrator to provide back story and exposition. It feels like a cheap trick for telling important details he was too lazy to write in context.
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- Anthony
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Potential for so much more.
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- jerry jackson
- 07-10-23
Better than the review says
This is a good book. It’s not a masterpiece in anyway, but if your fan of stokers Dracula then I think you enjoy this book
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- Blackenedghost
- 05-15-18
Forget everything you know about Dracula
Personally for me this was a fun story, that was very fast paced, and VERY Hollywood in it's approach. For Bram Stoker purists this might be a turn off, because it's definitely not the poetic literature that the original novel is. It's flat out Hollywood horror movie type stuff, so for me I enjoyed it, but it might not work for a lot of people depending on what type of story you enjoy.
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- Christina
- 03-09-23
What a wasted opportunity
The performance was fine, nothing wrong with the presentation of this novel. The story was absurd, it was as if he took nothing from the original novel. Dracula is the greatest villain in all of fiction. And to make him the hero is ridiculous. Also the characters of Mina send Jonathan were cheapened by the stupid idea that she was nothing more than a cheating wife. Dacre Stoker had the opportunity, with Dracul, to link the stories together and form a comprehensive trilogy. This book is a bad B-movie idea at best. I’d love to give it no stars.
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- DogDr
- 12-17-23
Exciting sequel to Dracula!
The story was well told, and engaging through every chapter, with unexpected twists and turns. This would be a great movie!
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