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Dracula Cha Cha Cha {with Aquarius}

de Kim Newman

Séries: Anno Dracula (3 & 3.5)

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Written by award-winning novelist Kim Newman, this is a brand-new edition, with additional 40,000 word never-before-seen novella, of the popular third installment of the Anno Dracula series, Dracula Cha Cha Cha.

Rome. 1959. Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda - his sixth wife. Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles Beauregard and his vampire companion Geneviève. Finding herself caught up in the mystery of the Crimson Executioner who is bloodily dispatching vampire elders in the city, Kate discovers that she is not the only one on his trail...… (mais)

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I had not read any of the previous books in this series, an alternate history in which vampires became visible in society in the late nineteenth century when Count Dracula married Queen Victoria, and history runs more or less along the same course as we know, except with added vampires. The first part of the book is a novel, Dracula Cha Cha Cha, set in Rome in 1959, and the second a novella, Aquarius, set in swinging London in 1968. Both feature vampire detective Kate Reed as a central character, and I suspect that both are pretty dependent on the events of earlier books in the series to the extent that I found it rather hard to get into. There are endnotes for Dracula Cha Cha Cha explaining all the cultural references (and there are a lot of them, including an undead Scottish spy called Hamish Bond). I actually enjoyed Aquarius a bit more, as I felt that Newman was focusing less on details of the setting and a bit more on plot. There are interesting characters in both.

One point that occurred to me: it's interesting how often alternate histories are actually detective novels. I guess it's a convenient device to allow the central character to find out more about their own universe and allow us to accompany them on the journey.

Anyway, I think I would have liked this more if I was more into vampire fiction, and if I had read the earlier novels in the series (there is nothing on the cover to indicate that this is not a standalone book). ( )
  nwhyte | Sep 1, 2018 |
Eh. Good, but dragged in places. Also there were a number of places where the font failed in the printing, leaving a random accented letter nothing more than a box. ( )
  Jon_Hansen | Sep 13, 2017 |
Passes the time but the stories get too bogged down in the constant pop culture referencing in every other paragraph . ( )
  polarbear123 | Oct 23, 2016 |
A collection of two stories, set in the 1950's & one in the 1970's. They centre on continuation of the world & mythos that was first developed in Anno Dracula & The Bloody Red Baron. Some of the same characters feature. Once again, Newman packs in the outré culture references, film references, & literary references to age appropriate analogies. The plotting takes some time to get moving, & one does feel as though Newman is milking this. Worth putting in some effort but for me, this neither work as an alternative history, thriller, nor crime novel. I was always trying hard to remember the various connections between characters. I wouldn't read to again, & towards the end, felt that it was over long. ( )
  aadyer | Aug 27, 2013 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. Horror. Historical Fiction. HTML:

Written by award-winning novelist Kim Newman, this is a brand-new edition, with additional 40,000 word never-before-seen novella, of the popular third installment of the Anno Dracula series, Dracula Cha Cha Cha.

Rome. 1959. Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda - his sixth wife. Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles Beauregard and his vampire companion Geneviève. Finding herself caught up in the mystery of the Crimson Executioner who is bloodily dispatching vampire elders in the city, Kate discovers that she is not the only one on his trail...

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