We're a book club of ladies (hence the XX) from the Philippines. We've been meeting bimonthly for over five years.We liked the historical background, the exotic settings, the consistency of the clues and the creepiness, but the book's strengths were its own undoing - the historical narrative was rambling, the clues were too pat, too parallel and too neat, and Dracula's motives were wanting - all that effort and blood-taking just to maintain his archives? Our average rating, 3.9 out of 5.