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Rachel
Don't get me wrong, it was a very good story. I mean, honestly, this is the beginning f the vampire era (I'm not sure whether to respect that or despise Stoker for it; either way, better than Twilight, right?) But I didn't like the structure of the book. It was set up to be read as a series of letters and journal entries, and I found that very ineffectual in bringing out the mood that I felt a story of this genre should convey, and the large range of viewpoints in the aforementioned entries made ...more
Amani Haak
Aug 04, 2015 rated it really liked it
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Mother Of All Vampire Stories

An excellent story! Love the way it's written. Reading about the plot through a first person view-point gives the book a thrilling suspense that would have been difficult to achieve otherwise.
But the ending... won't write any spoilers, but I expected it to be a firework ending and I simply got a sparkler.

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