Jonathan Harker takes a business trip to Count Dracula’s castle in Transylvania. Meanwhile, Jonathan’s fiance, Mina, helps her friend, Lucy, with a mysterious illness and sleepwalking issue.

Once I started reading, I immediately got caught up in this story, and I didn’t want to put it down. I got a little bit confused/frustrated when we switched from Jonathan’s story to Mina and Lucy’s (that’s what you get for not reading the back of the book), but that didn’t last long. Yes, I wanted to know what happened to Jonathan, but I became just as invested in Mina and Lucy's side of the story too.

I really liked the format this book was written in–journals, diaries, letters, newspaper articles, etc. It was a fun way to learn about all of the events that took place from different people’s perspectives.

I loved all of the characters in this book. They became a rag tag group of ‘vampire hunters’ that I couldn’t help but cheer for. I also thought the circumstances around their friendship were kind of funny. The fact that three of the guys all fell in love with and proposed to the same girl was quite funny to me. I love how they stayed friends and moved past that sticky situation.

I flew through the first 75% of the story, but the last 25% was kind of hard to get through. I’ll be the first to admit that I decided I wanted to finish this book, so then I unnecessarily pushed myself too quickly to get through the end. That may have been what did me wrong. It started when I was frustrated that the guys were missing some VERY OBVIOUS clues, but then things just kept getting more and more drawn out. I already felt like the beginning of the book was a lot of set up for the end, not that that’s a bad thing. But then the end never came. I get that it wouldn’t be any fun if things just fell into place the first time–there needed to be some unforeseen circumstances–but, to me, the ending was just too long with not enough happening.

That all being said, I really enjoyed most of my time reading this book, and I look back at it very fondly. If you’re at all interested in vampires and historical fiction, I recommend you give this one a go.