A review by the_reading_vampire
Dracula's Child by J. S. Barnes

dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

Started out strong, but the ending was pretty weak. The plot progressed through a lot of coincidences and vague, ill-defined visions, characters acted illogically (like getting out of a car without stakes when you know there are vampires everywhere). Dracula was extremely overpowered, to a point where he was almost god-like (yet many of these powers didn't really have a foundation in the original novel). With this in mind, it was even weirder that he was so easily defeated in the finale (by which I was also very disappointed because Mina, the most prominent female character of the book, was almost entirely written out of it). So yeah, the beginning was promising, but it just ended up being kinda meh. (Also not the novel being literally called Dracula's Child, yet the child is only a minor character 😭).