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Product Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Broadway Books; Reprint edition (September 27, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0307588467
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307588463
  • Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (91 customer reviews)
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
No gore, but great none the less
By Jessie Potts VINE VOICE on January 18, 2011
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I'm of two minds of this book. This first is that it was excellently written. I loved how accurate she tried to keep the locations, spellings, exc. The story was a great historical novel written from the Countess' own voice which was creepy, yet made a part of me believe what she was selling (about not murdering anyone). The second mind was... I thought there would be more blood? I really was expecting a type of historical horror novel where we witness all the women the Countess has killed and how it was done. Call it morbid fascination but I was looking forward to that.

The Countess of Bathory was accused of killing 612 of her own maidservants. Wow talk about a serious serial killer. It never evens occurs to her that it is considered murder when she beats her maid servants to death. She merely brushes it off as `I had not meant to'. It shows just how insane she had become. The details though are spared as the reader is left wondering sometimes just how twisted these punishments were. Erzsebet was considered the first female serial killer and a `vampire' much like Vlad the Impaled she was said to have bathed in her victims blood. While we aren't 100% certain what happened, Rebecca Johns decides to paint her opposite. Erzsebet is described as a woman trying to make it in a man's world (also Medieval let's not forget times were different then) who just did what was expected of her for her station. Johns shows Erzsebet as a character who was married young to an indifferent husband, widowed and left to survive. I actually at times was empathetic towards her where if I had seen the gore it would have gone the other way.

All in all it was an interesting read. At times it is slow going, but I've found that's how it is with most historical fictions so it shouldn't bother genre fans. While I personally wanted the blood (I'm weird) I was pleased at how Johns made me want to like her, and that was no easy feat.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Down For The Count
By Bruce Loveitt on January 22, 2011
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This is a beautifully written book. Rebecca Johns has oodles of talent and the countess of the title is a fully-rounded and fascinating character. You are immediately transported into the late 16th and early 17th centuries.....the language, the sights and sounds and smells, the people....everything rings true. The author doesn't strike a false note and the world she evokes is wonderfully real. Ms. Johns also succeeds in humanizing a woman who has been demonized. Not only can you understand her actions, from her point of view, but at times you can sympathize with her for having to make her way as a woman in a world mostly run by men. But Ms. Johns also lets us see Countess Bathory's faults.....her sadistic streak, her temper and her self-delusion. This character is so real that she truly does emerge, living and breathing, from the pages of the book.

My only complaint is the rather bizarre choice to put in a prologue that tells you right away what is going to happen, so that there is no suspense. If the author were a lesser writer, this decision might make you lose interest or at least reduce your enjoyment of the novel. Be that as it may, even though I knew what was going to happen to the countess I was still caught in the web that Ms. Johns has woven. A remarkable book.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Beautifully written.
By Tonya Speelman VINE VOICE on November 18, 2010
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This book was excellently written. Rebecca Johns did a wonderful job with Countess Erzsebet Bathory. I found myself feeling sorry for her and her plight of being accused of crueltly to her help, even though she was indeed very cruel.

It is amazing how marriages were arranged and girls VERY young were sent off to be a part of someone else's family, even if you weren't really a match. The Countess did what she had to go she thought to keep her household running.

The descriptions in the book of the countryside, people and events are exquisite. I felt like I was riding with her in that carriage to her new home and so many other times. Lots of romance, betrayal, family betrayals and loyalties will be tried in this book. You will be cheering for one side or the other by the end.. What side will it be?

This book is wonderful because it makes you want to read other books about The Countess and many others, at least I do now!

Rebecca Johns I knew was a writer to watch for when I read Icebergs, but she really did well with this one! Bravo Ms Johns!!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Fascinating Historical Fiction
By Todd and In Charge VINE VOICE on November 12, 2010
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I found the author's device, letters from the protagonist recounting her life, to be wonderfully effective in conveying the slow descent into madness that is the subject of this book. I agree with the reviewers who note this is not really a horror novel, despite the subject matter and the marketing, it's more a well-done yet grim work of historical fiction.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Fictionalized Autobiography of The Bloody Countess Fascinates
By Countess Chocula VINE VOICE on September 28, 2010
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The Countess is a fictionalized account of the life of Countess Elizabeth/Erzsebet Bathory, often referred to as The Countess of Blood. Told in the first person narrative, it spans Erzsebet's life roughly from her betrothal to Ferenc Nadasdy at 11, to her eventual confinement and death at 54, in the castle he gifted to her upon their marriage and where the majority of her crimes allegedly took place, Csejte.

I've read a few books about Bathory, so knowing the author got the names and places right went a long way toward my enjoyment of the book. I think the tack taken with the narrative is very interesting; rather than a grisly thriller, this is scary in a different way. There is a very brief spoiler-ish comment about the level and number of violent acts depicted; if you don't want to know, don't read the fourth paragraph and skip to the last paragraph.

As the narrator, every word on the page, aside from the beginning, comes from Erzebet's perspective; at the beginning of the story, she's already a spoiled and overly precocious child, accustomed to wealth and her family's noble position. As she grows older, she feels martyred by her family, doomed to wed a man who doesn't want her, despite her best attempts to woo him. By the time she actually weds Ferenc, it's clear that Erzsebet has developed an obsession with men and their fidelity (or lack thereof) to her; immoral and amoral, she's willing to violate anyone to get what she wants. She spends her life feeling entitled yet persecuted, always the one wronged, almost always at the hand of a fickle man. This is the story Erzsebet tells.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

Four Stars

good read

Published 1 month ago by vrsmith5
Her side of the story.

A better way to describe "The Countess" would be HER STORY. It is more a monologue of a ficticious ongoing letter from her to her only son, whom she has not seen in the... Read more

Published 5 months ago by Joey Latunski
Boring

Found it very boring right from the get-go.

Published 8 months ago by kt
Not historically accurate, but an okay read if you aren't going for...

I was hoping this would be a historical fiction on the Countess, but sadly it wasn't. It's a good story. It's like when you read an amazing book and then the movie sucks... Read more

Published 9 months ago by Nikki
Only thing I didn't like is I couldn't track this item during shipment

Bought this book used and it looks new. Only thing I didn't like is I couldn't track this item during shipment.

Published 12 months ago by Shelby Doyle Webb
Very Good Read!

I needed to keep reading this book - something about this woman grabbed my attention (and I went into this book thinking it was something completely different!). Read more

Published 13 months ago by Dana
Good read

A good read. A look into the life and time of her. Not the vampire people thought

Published 14 months ago by brook-leigh carr
fact that reads like fiction

An interesting read that humanises an almost mythical historical figure, I enjoyed it. Not too difficult to read or long-winded, and it offered a different, quite believable new... Read more

Published 15 months ago by Jodie Fewings
Enjoyable and interesting

I really enjoyed this book. I had not learned much of the "Blood Countess" before and thoroughly enjoyed this most interesting of books. Read more

Published 15 months ago by Blue
Countess Dracula

It is a long book, and sometimes its hard to stay with it. I'm still waiting for the horror part, but I'm working on it a little bit at a time. I will edit my review when I'm done. Read more

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