Mina
by Marie Kiraly
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Author: Marie KiralyEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-12-04
ISBN: 0425217469
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Berkley Trade
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Summary: 5 Stars
Mina by Marie Kiraly (Elaine Bergstrom) is of the style very much as Bram Stoker wrote Dracula. It was though Ms Kiraly/Bergstrom was there by his side picking up the thread that Stoker left behind. Any true fan of the Dracula story will find this an exceptional addition to the Bram Stoker's tale of desire and true love.
Kiraly/Bergstrom has shown us that Victorian woman were strong, independent, and passionate. Mina a woman of her time and the future, used by the men she loved yet keeping the core of who she was tightly imbedded within her. Loved by her husband Jonathan who woefully never understood the person she was. Loved by Dracula for who she was in another life not for the woman she had evolved into. Neither man courageous enough to throw off their own society shackles to truly love Mina for who and what she was.
Kiraly/Bergstrom has woven an intricate story once again of how life was. We are taken back to Victorian times and into the private lives of the people who lived there. Mina is tore between understanding what happened to her and coming to turns with the passion and emotions that polite society decries. We are taken into Mina's self-exploration of her mind, body, and soul. She evolves from the woman she was into the woman she needs to be. Mina learns the joys, and pain, of a love destine to know no boundaries. Mina is the grand finish to Dracula.
As to the new cover, the original was more in keeping with the mystic of the (Dracula) legend. I find nothing offensive or off-putting about the newer cover. The publisher (who picks these the author has very little if any say in the matter) is just keeping with the times (and others of the genre). I'm just glad they (publishers) didn't go with one of those cartoon-like covers and gave the book a cover with seductive class.
I give the book five stars.
Summary of Mina
First time in trade-the Dracula legend continues in a novel "destined to become a literary classic."*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?
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