A vampire-flipped Dracula in which mortality means life... and life means death. Vampires Jonathan Harker, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Murray live in underground London, trying to keep the undead city safe from the rumored mortals above who seek to give them life, only to kill them. The team makes an expedition above-ground to investigate an attack from the mortals, but there may already be a mortal infiltrating their undead city below!
Mortal Terror continues its unique take on the Dracula story, and drops another new idea that makes its inverse of the entire story even more interesting. Read Full Review
The real terror is this book's continued inability to fully commit. Read Full Review
I’m enjoying this as a vampire story sort of turned on its head. There are a lot of characters and plot lines and the dialogue between them is well written. It doesn’t seem to focus on one particular character in the struggle of mortals vs vampires, but a bunch of different tensions in the conflict between characters.
It's leaning a little heavily on offscreen lore and the assumption that readers have at least a passing familiarity with the characters. We lost some steam in #2, but this book still feels pretty strong overall. The book might benefit from more firmly anchoring us to Lucy as the protagonist.
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