New Book.DRACULA IN LOVE

I'm a member of one of those Book Clubs where you buy so many books for 99 cents, and then get one free, and so on.  When I received their email a few weeks ago announcing new releases, one of them was a book called Dracula in Love.  Of course, I was immediately intrigued.  I LOVE Dracula by Bram Stoker!  (The book, not the movie.)  Over the summer, I read the so-called "sequel" to Dracula called Dracula:  The Undead by the great-great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker (I don't know how many "greats").  It was pretty good.  It explored the possibility that there was more going on between the Count and Mina and it brings in one of my favorite historical figures, the Countess Bathory!  This book has the theory that the Countess was actually Jack-the-Ripper.  Very fascinating!

Anyway, this new book, Dracula in Love focuses on the idea that the Count and Mina were actually in love and that they'd met long before Mina was involved with Jonathan.  There's the strong suggestion that Mina is the reincarnation of the Count's "old" love.  Of course, this is exactly the idea that the movie version Bram Stoker's Dracula explores.  This book just takes it to a deeper level, focuses on the Count and Mina, and tells the story through Mina's eyes....as she truly is rather than as the virginal purist Bram Stoker portrays her to be in his novel. 

I must say that even though I haven't even gotten through a hundred pages, not even 50 pages, the read is quite interesting.  I'm looking forward to finishing it!  I've always thought, even before the movie or other stories were made available, that there was more going on between Mina and the Count than met the eye!!!

BTW:  yes, I'm still finishing with re-reading the Harry Potter series while I'm reading Dracula in Love.  I usually read 3 or 4 books at once.  It keeps me on my toes!!!!