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Let’s start with the style of the book. I am reading the e-book version so I has no cover. I don’t really mind, maybe reading it open minded is better. Apparently there are different kinds of covers and I would be interested in the original cover.
I like the way the book is written, it gives me the feeling that I am someone who found all these diaries and letters and that I am solving a puzzle. I had some trouble reading at first, for I am not a native English speaker. I have read several books in English but this one is somehow different. It became easier to read later on Expect the part when Mina is with Lucy and this old man tells them stories. I have very much trouble figuring out what the man says, probably because I have no knowledge of English dialects.
I have been wondering about a things of the book though. Is this the first book with vampires described this way? For I could easily guess what all the signs meant, but I wondered what someone in that time would have thought. (When Jonathan is in the castle of Count Dracula)
I have also been wondering about ‘New Woman’. I am not familiar with them, but I suspect that it is a feministic group. Maybe someone can explain it to me? I haven’t read about the woman doing much. Apperently they were free whole day, waiting to be proposed I also think that Mina is way too sweet to Lucy to be realistic. Deep down there should be some kind of jalousy, or something else. Mina tells often in her diary how sweet Lucy looks. I know that this is because the writer wants to point out how her condition changes in time, but I still think it is odd. Maybe the rest of the book will explain this behaviour.
I’ll better read the rest