Complex sentence: Unusually for the series, two of the borrowed characters in "Anno-Dracula" have no links to the period: the heroine is recycled from one of Newman's own earlier novels, and has a brief cameo as a reporter following the Ripper case.
Split into simpler sentences: Unusually for the series, several of the borrowed characters in "Anno-Dracula" have no links to the period. To give just two examples: the heroine is recycled from one of Newman's own earlier novels, and has a brief cameo as a reporter following the Ripper case.