Mina by Marie Kiraly

Rating: 2.0

What it's about:
In Bram Stoker's immortal novel, Mina Harker became a living, breathing object of obsession- only to fall prey to her stalker's seductive powers. There was only one way to save her soul-by destroying the life of Count Dracula, the creature who controlled and consumed her. But was the spell really broken? Could Mina return to the ordinary turns of a day, and to the restraints of a Victorian marriage, after the pleasures of such exquisite darkness?
-taken from Barnes&Noble.com

My thoughts:
The person who writes a sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula has some pretty big shoes to fill. I'm not even sure it could be done and Marie Kiraly didn't even come close with Mina. For one thing, the Mina in this book does not even seem like the same person as Mina in Dracula. In fact, most of the characters from Dracula are unrecognizable in Kiraly's Mina. Kiraly would have been better off just writing her own original vampire story with her own original characters. And another thing, the plot of Mina didn't make a whole lot of sense. Kiraly seemed to be grasping at straws here and the whole book felt pathetically desperate and not very well thought out.
Bottom line: Kiraly should have left the Dracula story well enough alone.