Bram Stoker's Dracula

For this book review I read Bram Stoker's Dracula. I thought that the book was very good but it was a little hard to understand because it was written in 1897 and some of the words used are a little hard to understand. The story really grabbed my attention in chapter one with the dark and creepy feeling, it was as if I was moving towards something dark and dangerous. This book was an amazing thriller that anyone who enjoys classic literature should read. Dracula is a fantasy thriller that opens up with English lawyer named Jonathan Harker, who is traveling to Dracula castle in Transylvania, to finalize real estate in England to Count Dracula. The peasants reacting in fear when they hear where Harker is heading puts him slightly on edge, especially

Soon after Harker finds out that he is imprisoned within the castle. While trying to find a way to escape Harker comes across three female vampires who attempt to feed off of him until they are interrupted by Dracula. Harker then discovers the secret that Dracula feeds off human blood, and that he has an intention to kill Harker. Harker attempts to kill Dracula, who escapes with fifty boxes of dirt from his estate to England. The book then switches to England to Mina Murray, Harker’s fiance, who is visiting her friend Lucy Westenra. Lucy has recently accepted the proposal Arthur Holmwood, but she had to turn down Dr. John Seward, who is a doctor at a mental asylum, and Quincey Morris, an American who is visiting Holmwood. Mina soon becomes concerned because Lucy’s old habit of sleepwalking starts up again and Mina hasn't heard from her fiance in a while. Lucy and Mina witness a shipwreck while out walking at night. The only thing that survives is a big dog, which quickly

When Mina walks to Lucy’s side she finds the figure gone. When Lucy awakes she is not ware of what has happened. Mina notices two red dots on Lucy’s neck. Lucy’s health declines over the next couple of weeks and Dr. Seward cannot figure out what is wrong with her. Mina then leaves Lucy because she finally hears from Harker and she goes to nurse him back to health. Dr. Seward calls upon Dr. Van Helsing when Lucy’s health takes a turn for the worst. They eventually cover Lucy’s room in garlic, her health improves, but the vampire is able to get past it and attack her once again. A wolf also smashes through Lucy’s window and frightens Lucy’s mother to death. Lucy is near death so Van Helsing calls upon her fiance Arthur to come and say goodbye, but Lucy tries to attack him, she then dies. A Little while after the newspaper reports of a creature that is attacking young children. Van Helsing become suspicious and and asks Dr. Seward to come with him to look at Lucy’s coffin. Jonathan and Mina return to England married, where Van Helsing reads Jonathan’s journal entrees and concludes that Lucy was attacked and changed by a vampire, he then gathers all of Lucy’s old suitors and