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Dean P. Turnbloom

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While there were nice touches of attentiveness to detail, I was disappointed in the Holmes and Watson presented here. A story with a vampire protagonist based on the Jack the Ripper killings may have just raised my expectations too high. I’m a huge Wilkie Collins fan and love. Good gothic mystery, this just wasn’t it.
One last item, the girls uncle agreeing to have her travel l unescorted to another country with an unrelated adult male?! No amount of vampire hypnotism could make that fly….Gert Bell couldn’t walk to school by herself.( if you’ve never heard of her, go grab Gertrude Bell, Queen of the Desert…now)… (mere)
 
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cspiwak | 1 anden anmeldelse | Mar 6, 2024 |
OMG Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, and vampires. So everything I am obsessed with, right? It's also much better than it sounds, really. Despite the premise, it's not jokey. Ugh, I hate it when books or whatever are like, "Oh, this premise isn't literary enough, I guess I should be kinda embarrassed that I'm not trying to win a Pulitzer, I'll write as if it is a joke, then it can be meta and I can be cool again" ugh ugh ugh. Anyhoo.

The characterization of the vampire was something I haven't seen done very often these days (except maybe in the Vampire Diaries). He's regretful and wants to change, but doesn't beat himself up about acting in line with his nature. Also, his justification of his choice of victim, while possibly something a typical non-vampiric Victorian person could maybe understand (if they were one of those social darwinism types), is now something that a modern reader would would find unacceptable. The comparing of Victorian social Darwinists to self-justifying Vampires is something that seems so obvious and perfect now!

It's not a traditional mystery, as we know "who" has done it since the beginning and how many victims there were to be, but Turnbloom does a good job of building suspense. I wasn't sure what was to be the fate of the unfortunate Italian man, for instance, or if the Baron would be cured or not. A lot of the action took place in the dialog, which I'm not a fan of, unfortunately.
… (mere)
 
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