I was satisfied with what I had done, with no treacherous regret creeping in at the edges, but I didn't feel exactly… satiated.

Seductive, lyrical, and rich with period detail, this daring retelling casts the Harkers' story aside to follow Dracula's medieval bride and her tangled romance with his consorts over the centuries. If you do not consent to us sending you cookies, then your browsing functions may be limited on our site. I didn't know what I was asking for, besides begging not to be left alone in the dirt to drown in my own blood.But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Really 700 Years Old: Dracula looks like a handsome, romanesque young man, but in reality he's over a thousand years old as vampires can only gain the ability to sire others into other vampires after they reach that age. Abby Craden is a professional actress and voice artist who can be heard in numerous TV and radio commercials, video games, and audiobooks. I have never felt more truly alive in my waking death than when I am taking the life of another person. She’s just so excited for and by her characters that it’s hard to critique any little instances of faux pas.

The drunken singing of the raiders wafted towards me on the breeze as I lay in the blood-streaked mud, too agonized to cry out for help. Evil Genius: Dracula is fascinated with learning more about not just his own vampirism but human intellect. I even re-listened to it (without the paperback accompanying it) the other day because I missed it somehow? There is a passage late in the book that really hit the nail on the head about the thousand violations of abuse, the ones that go unremarked as they grind you down or make you finally rise up.Even now, I have no idea how they stomached taking their supper feet away from the disemboweled entrails of women and children. I just couldn't fathom having an appetite for food, for black bread and beef stew and a mug of beer, after everything that had happened to me that day. So strong," you said, tilting your head to take me in the way a jeweler might a perfectly cut diamond.