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I’m not good at reading poetry but I always enjoy it and that’s what matters.
I picked this up today at the bookstore because I recognised the name - I instantly remembered that this was the author Bram Stoker fancied.
Let me tell you- I did not expect such beauty and leisure I found in the first few pages. Poetry dedicated to loving life - did not expect such a thing to be written in 1855

im 99% sure mina had just got bitten by dracula …

honestly, there isn’t one character i hate in this book. every character is themselves, has their own traits, a different way of speaking and yet each one is so kind and sweet. mina and jonathan are so cute. dr. seward is my crush honestly… and quincy haha.

these three last pages of van helsing just trying to obscurely explain to john that what they are dealing with is far more sinister than he thinks is AMAZING. i love this scene so much.
“it is the fault of science taht it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”

alright bitches im back.
first of all, my poor little jonathan and mina. honestly they are so sweet i love them.
secondly, this whole thing with lucy was a rollercoaster, when her mother came in and removed all the garlic flowers from her room i almost threw hands, damnit.
dr seward is so caring i love him, he’s such a good character. QUINCEY RETURNED!!! oh god why are cowboys so-… ehm.

QUINCEY MORRIS RETURNED AAAAA

OH MY GOD i cant believe this was published in 1897. lucy had just been bitten i think

okay why am i screaming, kicking my legs in the air and being absolutely OBSESSED over every page. THIS THING IS A MASTERPIECE (im not even a third through) ITS SO FUN I CANT EVEN-

the cowboy OH MY GOD. MISs LUCY-

WHY IS THIS SO GOOD OMG.
i just started it today (16.aug.) and it’s so easy to read, so engaging and dynamic! i cant imagine what it was like reading as a victorian person. dracula is scary, like actually- him crawling the outer walls of the castle, acting suspicious, drssing in jonathan’s clothes! wtf! and jonathan being sexually teased by the women?? DAMN! im in love!!

boring af, sorry

ive only started and i just know this book will take me ages to read.

the 16th chapter was a mess to say the least. george said some charming things to lucy (p. 176-180 were insane). after that lucy broke off her engagement with cecil (i was kinda emotional about it 💀 and for some reason i felt bad for him ngl). and now she wants to leave for greece (good for her). but she still has a tendency to copy everyone else’s opinions :( (but thats just her ig). btw the book wonderful!

sooo lucy and cecil are not on the best of terms and the situation has just got even crazier because not only charlotte came to visit, but freddy and george are getting along very well, and so george hangs out around their house a lot. moreover, cecil just read a passage of a book written by miss lavish which captured the first l+g kiss. kinda embarrassing… and so after that GEORGE KISSED LUCY AGAIN. i-

okay its getting interesting - the whole thing with cecil and the others… but to be honest, freddy and george are carrying this book (the pond with the clergyman was so funny), although lucy had some great moments too

sooo lucy just got engaged with some guy named cecil? idk he’s just like the other dumbass upperclass people. i have no idea why lucy accepted it but here we are. where is GEORGE?? what had charlotte said to himmm i need to know. anyway, the tenth chapter is going to be about cecil sooo let me speedrun this. btw freddy and mrs honeychurch were so funny in chapter eight. i loved that.

charlotte STOP INTERFERING AND MIND YOUR BUSINESS. i just want to know what george has to say to lucy for gods sake.

first of all, old mr. emerson is slay. Lucy I BELIEVE you can resist the urge to copy the opinions of those dumbass conservative englishmen/women.
btw did my boy george emerson just KISS LUCY WHAT THE HELL???

I have no idea what this book will be about but i LOVED Forster’s style of writing in Maurice, so i’ll give this a chance..

updating review:

my dude george did NOT just throw lucy’s pictures away in the river LMFAOO.

disliked it, did not finish it, do not intent to do