This book was such a fresh breath of air after stumbling through some rough reads. This book did a wonderful job of using beautiful language without being pretentious. Written in a series of letters to Dracula himself, uses the second person in a way that could be off-putting if it were not done correctly. The author shows her mastery of the language in this way by making it a seamless way to tell the story. I could have easily enjoyed 500 pages of such a story, and perhaps some of its weaknesses are in its shortness.

The ending felt rushed, and I would have liked to spend more time with the other brides. Still, the fizzled-out ending could not take away from what was a beautiful story. This book has earned its place on my favorites shelf.