Additionally, there is a complicated irony to Mina and the Count’s relationship which is, in a literary sense, deeply satisfying. Essex’s twisting of the original ending, weaving it with folklore, magic and passion, is pure ecstasy. Without telling you the ending, I will say that I liked where I went and I want to go back. I found the middle part of the book uncomfortable, unsure where the story was heading and if I wanted to go there. Jonathan is kindness and innocence the Count is pleasure and power. He is a most delicious character, but that creates a problem because Mina’s fiancé, Jonathan, is a most likeable character. He has loved Mina for more than 700 years, his passion, power and vibration singing to her from afar and through the ages. The changed viewpoint also shows us the Count in a new light. The doctors’ “understanding” of the female psyche is terrifying. Seward, Von Helsinger and Lord Godalming. The original Dracula storyline is followed, but the changed viewpoint illuminates the repression, cruelty and madness of Drs. In the opening pages of Dracula in Love, Mina Murray Harker states that the documents and letters used in Bram Stoker’s Dracula were forgeries created to hide the “dark deeds” of a “cabal of murderers.” Wanting to explain the truth of what happened between herself and the Count, Mina begins her story.
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