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 A superb gothic novel about the real Dracula, Vlad the Impaler - one of history's greatest psychopaths or a hero of the West? Perhaps both...
'A chilling masterpiece that weaves fact and fable. Bedtime reading? Only if you don't need much sleep...' BEST

DRACULA. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality.

Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his story not of a monster but of a man - and a contradiction. For the one they called 'The Devil's Son' was both tyrant and lawgiver, crusader and mass slaughterer, torturer and hero, lover and murderer.

His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved, who he must sacrifice. His closest comrade and traitor. And his priest, betraying the secrets of the confessional to reveal the mind of the man history would forever remember as Tepes - 'The Impaler'.

But Vlad's actions defy such labels. His extraordinary life burns with passion, taking him from his years as hostage to the Turk, through torture, battle, triumph and betrayal, ultimately to a last crusade - there perhaps, beneath the twin banners of the Dragon and the Cross, to find redemption for his innumerable sins.©2020 Chris Humphreys (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group Action & Adventure Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Gothic Horror Science Fiction Scary Crusade Biography Adventure Middle Ages Mystery
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A true history of Vlad or fantasy novel about him would have been a better angle than what has been written here. The author has tried to make Vlad a noble Hollywood hero but when he has to join the story with the historical facts of a cruel and ruthless 15th century warlord, his deeds jar with the fictional character the author has created. Also there is a lot of lazy writing to fill you in on the characters back story in forced conversations between them. I gave up about half way through where Vlad looses a finger, it was to much Hollywood for me to take and very far from what really happened. Predictably disappointing

Predictably disappointing

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It was nice to finally read/listen to a book that didn’t outright demonise Vlad Tepes. I’m a life long fan of both fictional and the real Dracula and when I read some pieces about Vlad by other authors I sometimes cringe at the casual uses of the words “evil” and “monster” . The 1500’s were a completely different time where morals of today were not that of then. It was a different time, different culture. Good and evil was not so black and white. This book paints that world with perfection.

Brilliant

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I had read the book years ago and loved it so had to give the audible version a go just hoping the narrator would do it justice.

Wow, the fact that the author is also the narrator means that you get all his passion come out in the story (not to mention the pronunciation and accents).

I would love someone to make it into a movie

Wonderful blend of fact and artistic flare

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I’ve read this book and I know that there are pages missing. The entire sequence when the Sultan turns his army around at the capital after seeing all of Vlad’s impaled prisoners. It’s one of the more shocking but satisfying moments in the story and it feels like it’s been edited out for some reason.

Aside from that. Fantastic story and brilliantly done narration.

Fantastic book but incomplete

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