Set years after the Crew of Light vanquished Dracula, Jonathan and Mina live in Oxfordshire with their son Quincey. On Quincey’s 12th birthday, with friend Van Helsing in attendance, tragedy strikes and a warning is given, Dracula will return. What follows is a series of characters, both originally involved in the Crew of Light, and new characters, as they either work for or against the forces of darkness, and not all is what it seems.
This book is definitely one of 2 halves and I’ll admit I struggled with the first half where characters are introduced, there a lot of conversations and it feels, bar a few dramatic events, very little happens. I understand the need to establish characters, set up events and so on but listening to this as an audiobook as I did, it was easy for my mind to wander, the pacing was a struggle. There are also quite a lot of characters introduced that it became confusing at times keeping track.
The 2nd half is a lot more interesting, I didn’t find it scary, there wasn’t built up suspenseful moments where the senses are provoked, it just sort of happens but the horroR was well written nonetheless And as a follow on it does well.

My biggest positives comes to the narrators of the audiobooks who do a commendable job of a variety of accents to keep it interesting!