Blood To Blood by ELAINE BERGSTROM |
Vampire - Horror |
ISBN: 0441007740 Publisher: Ace Books Date: October 2000 Pages: 309 Price: $5.99 Distribution: Mass Market Paperback |
This is a follow up to Mina by Elaine Bergstrom/Marie Kiraly. We revisit Mina after her ordeal with the vampires and once Dracula is truly dead. Mina is trying to piece back together her life. She and Jonathan Harker are living separately partly her fault and some his. Jonathan also had his own ordeal at the hands of the three vampire women to deal with. Illona and Karina were now dead but Dracula's half sister Joanna Tepes still lives. Joanna now on her own summons up the courage to go to England originally to take revenge on those who killed her brother. Through hundreds of year Joanna was starved by the more dominant vampiress Illona, now that she is no longer dominated by another she is unsure what to do. Partially mad after the years of starvation she sets out to revenge the death of her brother. Thus she sets out for England after Mina and Jonathan. While undertaking her mission to travel to England Joanna manages to make friends with a woman. This woman becomes not only Joanna's caretaker by day but also her friend and lover by night. During this time Mina and Jonathan are having their own situations. Mina has inherited a house and land from her dead lover Lord Gance. This does not sit well with Jonathan, which makes for more tension between them. Jonathan becomes unsure whether there is any kind of future in store for he and Mina now. Can they possibly get over her infidelity? What about what he suffered at the hands of the vampiress' is this something he will ever come to terms with? As if things aren't even more complicated women are turning up dead. Which means a killer is on the loose. Arthur is plagued by doubts about the killing of his true love Lucy, who was turned vampire by Dracula. He becomes determined to find a vampire and find out whether vampires are truly inherently evil. If so then their execution of Lucy his true love, was warranted, but if not then they made a horrible mistake. One he will have to live with for the rest of his life. Many question arise from all of this. For example what is the killer of the slain women's association with Mina? Will Mina survive this association? What role do Joanna and her human lover play in this whole situation? Will Arthur find the answers he is seeking? Will Jonathan and Mina reunite or will what happened separate them forever? How this all turns out makes for an interesting read. Though personally I enjoyed the first book more then this one it was still interesting to follow Mina, Jonathan, Van Helsing and the others into life after Dracula. |
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