Avec Dracula mon amour, Syrie James revisite l’histoire, que dis-je, le mythe du célèbre vampire et en fait une histoire d’amour sombre et torturé bien loin de l’oeuvre originale de Bram Stoker. L’idée de départ est simple et plutôt sympathique : et si les journaux et autres comptes-rendus établi...
Compared to Dracula in Love this is like a shining beacon of literary achievement, but... it's still not great. It's readable, but only if you like every single piece of villainy Dracula committed in the novel either excused and explained away OR transferred to be the fault of the ~heroes. I can ...
I went to Savers and they had a booksale. I was going over every shelf and couldn't find anyhing that appeals to me. I found this book and when I started reading it,I was instantly hooked. I've finished reading this book four days after reading this. It keeps me on the edge. Whenever I finished a...
I want to be clear that I love Jane Austen and I empathize with the desire to wield her pen. But that doesn't excuse this book.The premise here is that Jane Austen wrote a seventh novel that was stolen, and is found in the present by an Austen enthusiast. The entire text of this "found novel" is ...
This was a really good read about an Austen enthusiast, Samantha, who discovers a letter written by Jane Austen indicating she misplaced a manuscript while visiting friends. Samantha immediately begins searching for the manuscript, finds it, and devours it. The novel is cut between the text of ...
I had such high hopes for this novel, and it was not what I wanted it to be. I loved the story of finding the manuscript and all that it entailed, but the manuscript dragged on. My focus was forced onto an attempt to duplicate Austen's work instead of the story outside the manuscript (which was f...
Many rumors abound about a mysterious gentleman said to be the love of Jane's life—finally, the truth may have been found... What if, hidden in an old attic chest, Jane Austen's memoirs were discovered after hundreds of years? What if those pages revealed the untold story of a life-changing love ...
Nicole’s scream and a feral snarl rent the air as Michael wrestled with the writhing beast, its teeth and claws tearing through his garments and his flesh. In seconds, his hands sought and found the animal’s neck, and with one sharp, powerful twist he both felt and heard its spine snap, then sile...
He carried her out of the water and across the sand, laid her down on the soft wide blanket in the shelter of the cliff, and stretched out beside her. He held her for a long moment before he kissed her, his hands combing through the wet hair streaming across her shoulders. ...
Alec regarded Claire with concern as they paused on her threshold. “Not really,” Claire replied honestly. She felt overwhelmed, both mentally and physically—and as if she were a completely different person than she had been the day before. But in fact, she reminded herself, she was not a person a...
In her letters, she spoke tenderly of her husband, admitting that “every day makes my own attachment to him stronger.” Visiting friends commented on how well Charlotte looked, and on the complete contentment of the newly married couple. Ellen confessed that “after her marriage—a halo of happiness...
It was Midsummer’s Eve, the day of our performance, and also Charles’s twelfth birthday. At breakfast, we paid tribute to him with his favourite lemon cake. My mother gave Charles a very smart blue coat which she had remade from my brother Frank’s, and Cassandra and I presented him with a set of ...