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Summary: A Great Read - You'll Enjoy!
Review: "Lord of the vampires" is the last of the trilogy of "The Diaries of the Family Dracul". The first book is "Covenant With the Vampire" and the second is "Children of the Vampire. The reason I mentioned the other novels is because they really should be read before reading this one. All are highly engrossing and interesting. How Ms Kalogridis thought up all this is beyond me - but she is obviously talented. Although all the books are wonderful reads - be prepared - there are strange situations in the books - among them are incest and homosexuality. The books don't go into to much "intimate" details on these subjects - and they're not something that carries on into the complete story. So the squeamish should tolerate them just fine. Therefore, I would advise anyone who likes vampire novels to purchase all three of them.
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Summary: A Great Read - You'll Enjoy!
Review: "Lord of the vampires" is the last of the trilogy of "The Diaries of the Family Dracul". The first book is "Covenant With the Vampire" and the second is "Children of the Vampire. The reason I mentioned the other novels is because they really should be read before reading this one. All are highly engrossing and interesting. How Ms Kalogridis thought up all this is beyond me - but she is obviously talented. Although all the books are wonderful reads - be prepared - there are strange situations in the books - among them are incest and homosexuality. The books don't go into to much "intimate" details on these subjects - and they're not something that carries on into the complete story. So the squeamish should tolerate them just fine. Therefore, I would advise anyone who likes vampire novels to purchase all three of them.
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Summary: Lord of the Vampires
Review: For the past decade, Abraham Van Helsing has lived to carry out his obsession; his need is to rid the world of vampires. By 1893 in Amsterdam, Bram realizes that the time to revenge his family for the atrocities committed on them by Vlad the Impaler, better known as Count Dracula, and several of his minion are at hand. Bram knows he will need help when he goes to England to confront Dracula, who has previously turned Bram's father and aunt into creatures of the night. Bram enlists the aid of Dr. John Seward (the son he gave up for adoption years ago) and several of Seward's friends in his quest to end the four hundred year reign of terror of Count Dracula. He locates Dracula, his aunt, and the very powerful Countess Elisabeth and shockingly defeats the powerful count. However, his victory is not savored long because all does not turn out well in Bram's world. He now knows that Dracula was a minion of a more powerful Dark Lord, an evil he may have to sell his soul in order to defeat. It seems he must now confront a greater malevolence, the teacher who taught him the art of vampire killing, if the world is to rid itself of much of the evil that resides on it. The third book in the "Diaries of the Family Dracul" trilogy is the best of this exciting series because it so closely aligns itself to the original vampire lore and further explains Stoker's legendary tale. Vampirophyles will relish Lord of the Vampires. If a bloodsucking sexy novel is your drink, it is strongly recommended that you read the entire series, but especially this book.
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Summary: A childish and ill-thought out book
Review: I have only read one book in this series, that relating to Bram Stoker's Dracula, and that was more than enough. I am at a loss as to how the other reviewers could praise it so highly. The plot line which follows Stoker's Dracula was laughable, it was so unbelievale, the characters retained nothing of their original form and the ending was so ludicrous it left me annoyed that I had wasted my time in reading to the end. If you like pulp Vampire fiction with pretensions at being literary then buy this, if you want a decent vampire tale, then avoid it at all costs.
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Summary: A Great Conclusion
Review: In the last book of the series Van Helsing finally tracks down Dracula. I really loved the way this book intertwined with the real Dracula. It is good from beginning to end. If you like vampires Read This series.
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Summary: Said it before
Review: Kalogridis has full round characters, and the evil in this Vlad Dracul leaves Bramstoker's character almost as a child, to read the first book was enough to realize i had a great trilogy on my hands. Few authors can infuse such live in each and everyone of the characters.
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Summary: AMAZING!!
Review: Oh, poor, poor "Sal" (customer reviewer). You hated this because you did not read the first two!!! This is a series that you must read IN ORDER and you must read ALL OF THEM!!! The majority of the history is in the first novel, too bad you missed out on that!!! This is the BEST vampire series to date, and I am an avid Anne Rice fan, but Anne Kalogridis far surpasses Ms. Rice with this trilogy!! I am SO sad that the series is over!!!! Finally, a vampire novel that intertwines the actual history of Vlad the Impaler!!! No "Lestat" and "Armand"......Vlad and the Family Dracul is real history and this series is gripping to the very end!!!!!!
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Summary: Jeanne Kalogridis, you're my hero!
Review: This book was really a great prequel to Dracula considering that it runs right into that book/movie by Bram Stoker. Jeanne really knows how to use history and the myths of vampires to her advantage and weave them into a tale that anyone interested in this type of genre would want to read.
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Summary: Jeanne Kalogridis, you're my hero!
Review: This book was really a great prequel to Dracula considering that it runs right into that book/movie by Bram Stoker. Jeanne really knows how to use history and the myths of vampires to her advantage and weave them into a tale that anyone interested in this type of genre would want to read.
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Summary: WHY do people like this book?
Review: This is quite possibly the most dissapointing novel I have ever read, horror or otherwise. After two GREAT books in the series, the final book is rushed and features every two-bit hackneyed method the author could come up with. It starts off great for the first 200 pages, don't get me wrong. The parts with Elizabeth, Vlad, Harker, and Zsusanna are absoulutely perfect. But once we get to England...it's formula all the way, with some 'twists' thrown in to attempt to keep the reader guessing. This book is deservingly spoiled when I say that the ending to the entire series is cobbled together from the last ten pages of the book, and everything beforehand is utterly pointless. But if you want a good read, you can always just read the first 200 pages and then make up your own ending. That's what I wish I had done before I had unfortunetly kept reading.
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