Covenant with the Vampire

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Summary: Excellent Vampire Saga
Review: The first of the three book series, Covenant With the Vampire, is one of the best Vampire Sagas ever written. From the very start, a dark mood is set and it continues to unfold throughout the rest of the book. The story unfolds as Arkady Tsepesh's father has died and he and his pregnant wife are on route to Transylvania to undertake his late fathers role, that as an aid to a great uncle, Vlad Dracula. Arkady and his wife do their best to remain optimistic, but as the days go by, Vlad's evil begins to encompass every part of their lives.

The book is set as a prelude to Bram Stoker's Dracula and Jeanne Kalogridis does a magnificent job is setting the evil atmosphere you'd expect. The novel is filled with horror, suspense, tragedy, and despair, while always showing a ray of light and of hope that this evil can be overcome. This book is not to be passed up, whether you are a fan of Vampires or horror in general.

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Summary: You have to read it!
Review: The whole plot, how the characters are sbdued to his will, even if the don't know it. THe whole evil Dracula projects is overwhelming, the story is absorbing, it is one of the few books i have ever finished in only a couple of days. It is so absorving.

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Summary: Enchanting and scary!
Review: This book deals with the time before Bram Sto- ker's "Dracula" begins. It's about the family Dra- cul and their bonds to their ancestor(still going strong) Vlad Dracul. Arkady Tsepsesh is the only male Dracul alive(except for "uncle Vlad") since his father has recently died. He comes from London with his pregnant wife to deal with the business his father has left...but he doesn't know that this includes a terrible covenant with the vampire.... This book is really enchanting...You just have to read it to the end once You've started. It's very erotic...blood and sex and mostly at the same time... Kalogridis has really managed to make the most of the legend and Vlad is surely the incarnation of evil here. Absolutely fabulous

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Summary: Superb! A great way to jump start the serie's
Review: This book has it all; horror, suspence, romance, and drama if you love vampire trilogie's you must buy this book. It got me hooked on vampire books. You will to if you read this book. I told all my freinds about this book and they too can't wait to read "Children of the Vampire".

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Summary: Chilling...
Review: This book is a very chilling look at the world of Dracula, as well as the myths and facts behind the legends. I highly recommend the entire "Diaries of the Family Dracul" trilogy... They're absolutely spell-binding. From the time I got the first novel, I couldn't put it down. Jeanne Kalogridis did a wonderful job with her research, and with her so-descriptive writing that you feel like you're there.

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Summary: Beautifully Written!
Review: This book is not for the weak of heart. Although some parts are inappropriate for young readers. I couldn't put it down. The characters in it are great. They range from a sadistic old man to a sickly niece. Anything but boring; this book is a tribute to vampire lovers everywhere.

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Summary: EXCELLENT!!EXCELLENT!!EXCELLENT!!!
Review: This book is told wonderfully. Kalogridis pulls you into to the story and you can feel the characters pain...I absolutely could not put it down...I read it in two days!

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Summary: Better than Anne Rice's Interview With the vampire series!!!
Review: This book kept me at the edge of my seat. It keeps you interested throughout. Buy this as well as the others. She did a wonderful job, and the characters are very believeable.

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Summary: A must buy for all Dracula fans!
Review: This book was really a great prequel to Dracula. I was a little skeptical about delving into this book but with the way Jeanne used history and the myths of vampires, really took me by surprise. Being an avid Anne Rice fan, I was honestly quite impressed with her rendition of the events leading up to the telling of Bram Stoker's Dracula. This is definitely a book that I would recommend to anyone interested in this kind of genre.

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Summary: Wonderful Vampire Tale Written In A Hackneyed Prose Style
Review: This is an excellent story for vampire lovers, set in a big stone castle in the Carpathian mountains. Voracious wolves prowl the surrounding forests and superstitious peasants cross themselves and whisper rumors of evil. The Tsepesh/Dracul family has long held sway in this little pocket of Romania, retaining feudal rights as late as the mid 1850s, and inbreeding for so long to keep the royal line pure that the result is a common occurance of deformity and madness. This story has it all with the exception of compelling prose. The author constantly employs "as if it were" or "it seemed that" to describe factual happenings in a "he snored as if he were sleeping"-type vein. Although it is set in the mid-nineteenth century, the language and expressions are those of the present. The eerie setting is only briefly described, then forgotten in her tale, robbing the story of a keener element of haunting. And the wholesome characters are so good that they lack any internal struggle against evil, which I expected from a vampire book. However, it is overall a very entertaining book with some wonderful plotlines.