Illustrated by Keenan Gaybba
2 stars
Okay story with silly humor and fun 90s-style artwork.
Back from his world tour, Dracula is ready to host his brunch club, only to learn his nemesis, Constantine, has taken over and banned all humans. With help from his friends, he’ll have to save the brunch club and human-vampire relations before it’s too late.
I’ll admit I went into this knowing nothing about it. Apparently this is set before vampires knew they liked drinking blood and could turn people into vampires by biting them.
I really liked the start of the book. The vampires run on jelly, blood orange jelly donuts giving them the most energy. The thought of vampires being in a brunch club and obsessed with jelly-filled donuts was very humorous to me. But when there is a jelly shortage, Dracula has to find a replacement to satisfy his brunch club’s hunger.
Then they discover blood and it felt like every other vampire story. Once the blood part came in, things got really weird. Dracula tasting Elena’s blood from her cut finger without her know was really creepy. And the idea of serving blood-jelly donuts to unsuspecting humans did not make me want to side with Dracula.
There’s only one female character and she serves as the love interest, which was pretty disappointing. She is a cool character but doesn’t get to do a whole lot.
Cute 90’s cartoon artwork. It hits the mark for spooky stories that aren’t too scary.
The ending was satisfying enough and it all works out okay but there were some hiccups along the way that just weirded me out. This one didn’t work for me.