Level 3: Carmilla KPF with Integrated Audio

by Jane Rollason (Adapter), J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Laura and her father live quietly in a castle in the middle of a thick forest, but their lives change when beautiful, strange Carmilla becomes their guest. People start dying, and Laura also becomes ill. Laura’s father is worried. Will his daughter die too? Or can the deaths be stopped?

Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 2011

Reviews

[Niharika]

Spooky! Fit for the season I guess?!
I'm not the one for horror stories. I had little to no idea what the book was about. Picked up on a whim at 1 in the morning. Didn't even realized it was a simplified version until I was halfway through. But it was spooky and I couldn't put it down mostly because I don't want to sleep with unfinished vampire story.

Wish me luck with sleeping though. As not a horror reader it can be dangerous to read this stuff at night. I already am having weird dreams for a few nights now so it was really not the best time to read this.

I will give a try to the original version of the story though. I feel weird about only reading the simplified version.

[Fatemehshahvari · Rating 2 out of 5]

برای ارائه زبان اینو خوندیم:/ اصلا wtf?

[Malola · Rating 5 out of 5]

As for the English used, I'd give it maybe a 3/5 because, well, it's for intermediate learners and not for fluent people. Of course, I knew this, so I can't take it into account.
The adaptation itself deserves a 5/5. Rollason made a really good job "translating" the whole thing to easier English while keeping the tone of the original.

With regards to the history per se, definitely 5/5.
It was actually very fun, though predictable. Carmilla "had" to be murdered... The author couldn't just let her live. However, I was extremely surprised of the sapphic undertones and the sort-of-platonic relationship between the two protagonists.
It's funny how the vampire thing took shape... the feline figure... the smoke shape-shifting sort of thing. Very original.
Post-Dracula we understand vampires in a different way, so it was really cool to see how that image was shaped BEFORE Dracula.

[Aman Reading · Rating 2 out of 5]

Accidentally read this edition. I should have known better than to push forward with this 'modern' version, which completely stripped the language to its bare minimum. At the very least, this edition reveals how lacklustre the plot of the original is.

Nevertheless, the question remains: Who needed a modern adaption in "Reading Level 3"?

[Baz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I accidentally read this version…

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

Accidentally downloaded and read this version rather than original. I didn't enjoy that in this interpretation Laura was more repulsed by Carmilla's advances than how I interpreted her responses in the original.