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  • 04/2015
  • B00WK93MBI
  • 372 pages
  • $4.99
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  • 04/2015
  • 9781312811317
  • 382 pages
  • $22.95
Las Lugosi
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Las Lugosi's Dracula: The Cradle of Evil
Las Lugosi, author

Adult; Mystery/Thriller; (Market)

Las Lugosi's Dracula is a three part story about the most famous vampire the world has ever seen. It tells the story of how the vampire was born, going from a child hostake in the Ottoman court to the height of his power and ultimately to his downfall and death. But the story is not just about Dracula. It is about the millions of people his existence has impacted and the countless lives he has ruined as he tried to conquer the world. But remember, just because Dracula has been successfully defeated, it does not mean he is gone forever. Just because he has been killed off for now, does not mean he will not return. He is, after all, undead.
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Amazon.com

When Emily and Lizzy attended the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, they met Vasile and Nico, who were from Transylvania. Finding these new friends to be charming, Emily and Lizzy agree to extend their vacation and go with Vasile and Nico to Transylvania for a weeklong adventure. But the danger they find there will change them forever. This plot was an interesting twist on the Dracula legacy. I enjoyed the metaphor at the beginning about the reality of life in Dracula’s Transylvania. The story oozed evil, and made for a frightening thought of imagining it invading my own country. As the main character kept the suspense continually going, I was emotionally drained by the end of the book. It didn’t have the happy ending that I wanted, but it also didn’t have the twist that I feared it would. It was very interesting how American politics of that time was woven into the story.

BestThriller.com

An entire generation's notion of the Dracula myth has been defined by the Twilight series. Can anyone breathe (ahem) new life into the story in a way that is both original and yet faithful to the original legend?  Las Lugosi's Dracula is the story of a young American athlete, Emily, who attends the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow (If you're a history buff, you may recall that at the height of the cold war, American president Jimmy Carter elected to boycott the Russian-hosted olympics as a political statement). Emily, an open-minded girl from Southern California, and her friend, Lizzy, break the embargo and attend the olympics against the wishes of the American government.  All, of course, does not go as planned. Emily meets Vasile, wealthy son of The Ruler, whose reign stretches "from the Black Sea and the Carpathians, to the plains bordered by the Danube to the end of the Transylvanian border to Hungary, and from Moldlva to Sarajevo." She and Lizzy are persuaded to leave Russia to visit the homeland of this handsome and rich stranger. In his debut novel, Las Lugosi manages to tick all the boxes anyone could want in a contemporary vampire novel and more. Young adult romance? Check. Faithful ties to the original legend of dracula? Check. A truly original plot? Check. But more impressively, he's taken Dracula out of the Pacific Northwest and back where he belongs: Transylvania. This is something that Lugosi is singularly qualified to do. He was born in Transylvania, Romania, when the country was still under the rule of communist dictator Ceausescu. His family fled in the mid-80s, a few years prior to the revolution. In Lugosi's Transylvania, life under "The Ruler" is a delicious blend of the Dracula myth and the regime of former communist dictator Ceausescu.  That's surely why Lugosi's descriptions of life under "The Ruler" are so vivid and frankly, grim. But that is juxtaposed by stunningly majestic descriptions of the Romanian landscape, and a convincing blend of history and fantasy. Check it out.

Formats
Ebook Details
  • 04/2015
  • B00WK93MBI
  • 372 pages
  • $4.99
Paperback Book Details
  • 04/2015
  • 9781312811317
  • 382 pages
  • $22.95
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