Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel

Lucy Westenra, whose untimely death at the hands of Dracula was the defining moment of her life, has spent her vampiric afterlife searching for her beloved Mina and, ultimately, herself. Iris Goldaming is running to escape her family’s sinister multilevel marketing scheme. Neither woman expects to find love along the way. In this gorgeously layered novel about self-forgiveness and allowing oneself to be changed by love, White (Mister Magic) offers a refreshing take on a classic. Narrator Billie Fulford-Brown steals the show as Lucy, somehow making her every iteration—pre-vampire Lucy, lost vampire Lucy, and confident-in-love Lucy—all sound distinct, while Elizabeth Knowelden as Mina and Nicky Endres as Vanessa offer small but extraordinarily effective performances. Linda Jones narrates Dracula’s third-person passages with perfectly chilling flatness. Jeremy Carlisle Parker has incredible tone and delivery as Iris, ranging from snarky to tender and back in the span of a paragraph. The author reads the dedication and acknowledgments in a conversational, conspiratorial manner.