Jennifer H. (editorjen) reviewed on 12/8/2011 + 2 more book reviews

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A guilty pleasure? Sure. It's unabashedly romantic, in a way that old Bram probably would have found inappropriate, but it fills in the gaps in the classic story better than any "sequel" or knock off of the original I've read (and believe me, I've read them all). With a title like that I worried I was going to get total Mary Sue fanfic, but this novel stands on its own right as a Serious Book. While Stoker's portrayal of Mina was remarkable in its time for showing a woman as an equal of the men of her era, James takes the story into the 21st century, showing a side of Mina that makes her, psychologically, a woman of our own time.

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