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Daughters of Shadow and Blood: Yasamin, by J. Matthew Saunders
I've always thought that the three brides of Dracula were a wasted opportunity in Bram Stoker's novel. They only show up a couple of times and are meant only to titillate and serve Stoker's thesis that lust <=> vampirism <=> unclean. They never get names, only receiving the most rudimentary of descriptions, and then they get killed. I chose to request J. Matthew Saunder's Yasamin (the first book in the Daughters of Shadow and Blood series) because the plot synopsis promised me a story about one of Dracula's brides. I'm a sucker for books that give badly needed backstories to classic female characters, whether they succeed or not...
Read the rest of my review at Summer Reading Project.
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