Bram Stoker's Dracula is great (the first part that is)

By envelope_tide

Hi everyone, It’s like 4:30 in the morning and I’m lying in bed honestly hoping the Count would just come and knock me out. 😅 Anyway, I wanted to talk about Dracula. The first part is genuinely awesome. When Jonathan Harker is trying to make it out of Dracula’s castle, I was both scared and hooked the whole time. That section has all these creepy little details that make the place feel real, and I kept turning pages because you want Jonathan to get away. Then at some point it really changes. Once the POV shifts from Jonathan to Mina, the whole thing slows down a lot. It feels like time just sort of gets stuck while Mina worries about what’s happening to her husband and looks after Lucy, who keeps getting ill in this mysterious way. And that’s where I started losing interest. Mina and Lucy don’t really grab me as much, and it definitely makes the book weaker after Jonathan’s parts. I was way more invested in Jonathan, since the beginning had him in a more exciting setup. But it takes forever to get back to him, and with Lucy being ill over and over it kind of drags the story to a halt. Still, I can’t pretend I didn’t enjoy it. I honestly think the start is great, and the sea captain’s journal still gives me chills. Sorry for the long post—and sorry if my grammar is weird. English isn’t my first language.