** spoiler alert ** 
 Updated Dracula, dealing with some inter-generational stuff sounded like an ideal book and the reviews were good and, ngl, the cover had me hooked. I know, I know - never judge a book by it's cover, but...well, yeah - I've always had magpie tendencies and get attracted to pretty, interesting things so it seemed like a nice choice of a book. 
 To be honest, I don't know what I really think of the book. It's an interesting story, it's smart without being smug and it's intriguing enough to keep you reading. With all that in mind, I honestly don't know why I wasn't as hooked as I thought I was going to be but, for whatever reason, for a large part of the book I didn't really get into it. I think part of the problem was the fact that the main protagonist was nameless - and I know it shouldn't have mattered especially as a large part of the book was about other people, in particular her father and mother (who were named at least - Paul & Helen), but I just felt like if there was a name there that it would have been easier for me to warm to, and care about, the character. 
 In one of the last chapters we find out that the character was actually named after her grandmother, but as the grandmother was only named the once, i can't be certain. 
 Regardless - that was only a small thing but combined with the somewhat confusing chapter stuff where it would start off with one person and then go onto another, and it just kept me detached for a large part of the book. 
 As the book progressed though I found myself more and more interested and the issues I had with it didn't seem to register so much. I found myself intrigued by Paul and Helen's quest and it obviously helped that the later chapters were almost exclusively devoted to them. It was weird that after spending so long on the quest with them, and struggling with the book for so long that at the end I was actually disappointed that we didn't get more with their reunion. Saying that though, I think the author did a good job at tieing their story up - it wasn't the happily ever after, but it felt realistic in the story. 
 Considering the slog it felt like for around 500 pages, I wasn't really sure how it would go or if I would even care how things were resolved but I actually think that I'll probably appreciate it more on the second reading. First reading though? It was kinda hard going for a while but I got there, eventually.