
Merciless. 💅🏻😈😁

To be fair, I feel like that's Steward's default position. 🙄😏

“The old man looked around with a smug face—apparently he was an ‘esprit fort‘ in his circle.”
#wordoftheday”

October and November were extremely busy and I wasn‘t able to pick up this behemoth of a Dracula story since October! So I‘m back into it at page 300 with “only” 524 pages to go. Fortunately I know the original Dracula story so well, there‘s no rereading needed, despite the extreme differences between the original and this one written a couple years later.
The descriptions of Whitby in this version are so detailed! I love it!

Oh my- We do NOT call people impaled by Vlad the Impaler KEBABS!! 🫣🫢😆

Argh. 😡
I had to take a picture of my notes that I took while reading at work, because if I couldn‘t do those, I would‘ve thrown it across the room.
Suffice to say…. No.
The equivalent of bad pacing. ⭐️

You take 1 ghost space ship, scrub it clean of Lovecraft fish people, add in a werewolf, a mummy, a Frankenstein, & an AI doctor, mix it like a margarita shaker, then send them off to kill Dracula. What could possibly go wrong?
Everything. Everything goes wrong. This pastiche of horror icons made me LOL several times. Not a lot of character depth, but I was honestly having too much fun to care. I want more of this group‘s adventures! 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

The last two books of my Halloween TBR are happening this week. The aim was to finish by Nov 15th, at which point I‘ll start my Winter TBR.
Both are … weird. That‘s all I can really say for now.