Review: Amazing!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
I thought Being Mrs. Dracula was brilliantly written, and was more than happy to dig into Being Dracula’s Widow. I was hoping it would be just as good, but got a wonderful surprise when I discovered it was even better!Over ten years have passed since that dreadful night where Van Helsing killed her entire family. Well, not everyone, because no one was thinking of poor little Emil in the castle. Valeria got to him in the nick of time and she has been keeping both of them safe since then. The years pass and Emil is growing up to be a young man. To make sure Emil gets a career and learns to behave in society, they move to Brasov, where Emil becomes an apprentice at the local publishing house. For a while, everything seems to be going fine, right until the moment where Emil comes home one night carrying a book. Now this isn’t any book, but the very book of Bram Stoker; Dracula. Somehow he has gotten the whole story from someone as has written it down AND published it. You can imagine how Emil reacts to certain parts of the book, parts that Valeria has tried to hide from Emil.Long story short; Valeria finds herself without a home, tossed out and alone. Determined to find the ones responsible for the death of her family and for revealing a secret, Valeria sets out to get the revenge she has been craving for years.  Her first stop is in Paris, Fleur’s hometown. Just as she is trying to pick up the pieces of her heart and move on, she stumbles over a young man named Lamond. The question is, will he be enough to distract her from her vengeance, or will her quest lead her to her doom?I can’t even begin to describe how amazing Being Dracula’s Widow is. Valeria was my favorite wife of Dracula. To follow her, see her trying to move on after Emil threw her out… But she isn’t so forgiving. Not towards the hunters who killed her sister wives, to the author who wrote the damn book that sold her out, nor toward herself. When she meets Lamond he turns her world upside down, and she can feel herself starting to fall for him. Unfortunately, she still has some unfinished business with Van Helsing and Harker, not to mention Bram Stoker.Seeing how Stokers book was being used as a guideline, a map to find them all – that was cool. Seriously. LOVED the ending.Faith made a wonderful continuation of Being Mrs. Dracula filled with heartache, sorrow, despair, hate, desperation, but also with hope, love, and forgiveness.Can’t wait to read more by Faith!!