Review: Capital!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
Christian Klaver presents an imaginative reworking of iconic figures. It's fresh, fun, very atmospheric, and well written. Klaver is clearly immersed in Holmesian lore, and he takes a certain liberty with the Dracula story to good effect.I wasn't aware until I'd finished this story that other authors (such as Loren D. Estleman, known for his Amos Walker series) had put Holmes and Dracula in the same frame. Nonetheless, though I haven't read these other works, I believe Klaver's story rests on its own merits.Also, there's a surfeit of vampire stories on the market right now, but what I like is that this story doesn't give us glossy "pop" vampires...they're "roots" vampires.