" A badly written,badly researched non-sequel. Holt threw in everything he could to thrill the horror tastes of younger readers in 2012. He did this with no respect for the original, which he largely ignored in favour of 20th century movies, vampire trends and research books on Vlad the Impaler (which only sold because they cashed in on Bram's original book "Dracula" which had nothind to do with Vlad.Holt is merely an opportunist,Dacre a sell-out whose only contribution was his family name which Holt desperately needed to sell his "sequel".Holt wrote a screen play for another schlock horror movie not a novel in it's truest form,normally I wouldn't care, but after reading his arrogant interview where he places himself on a level with B.Stoker(the creator of modern vampire mythology)and thinks himself an intregal part of the vampire tradition, well I think that arrogant hack assumption is as true as his stories of winning a fight in early grade school by becoming the embodiment of Dracula (don't we all read the original Dracula by grade 2 ??) "
— David, 1/25/2014