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Title: Anno Dracula: One Thousand Monsters
Subtitle: Anno Dracula, Book 5
Author: Kim Newman
Narrator: William Gaminara
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-24-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Paranormal
Publisher's Summary:
In 1899, Genevieve Dieudonne is working as a doctor on a ship of vampire refugees from Dracula's Britain, as Christina Light, a vampire who can literally turn into light, persuades the Emperor to cede a section of Tokyo to her as the Vampire Bund, a Shanghai-like international settlement of the undead and her own power base.
New Year's Eve 1999 in the Vampire Bund in Tokyo, and Christina is on the cusp of completing her 100-year plan to become an ascendant power in the world. Only vampire samurai Nezumi stands in her way....
In this the fifth gripping story in the acclaimed alternative history vampire series, Newman takes his story to turn-of-the-century Japan and a world of cyberpunk, kaiju and yakuza.
Members Reviews:
A Rousing Good Adventure Story
I still can't tell if this is a continuation of "Anno Dracula" or an alternate version. In this one Dracula still rules the British Empire and has deported a number of vampires from England including Genevieve Dieudonne. Also along for the book are Captain Kostaki, late of the Carpathian Guards, Sergeant Danny Dravot of the Diogenes Club, and Mr. Yam, the Chinese elder who once tried to take Genevieve's head off. Fleeing to Japan after being turned away everywhere else, they encounter Lieutenant Majin, a monster of another sort. With increasingly bizarre vampires of oriental bloodlines to contend with, and a ghetto situation to live in, they fight to stay alive amidst major turmoil and even more horrendous creatures. It lacks the empathy of "Anno Dracula" but is still a rousing good adventure story.
An Unexpected but Entertaining Digression
originally posted at wineandsavages.blogspot.com
Well, that was weird.
I jest, but Anno DraculaâOne Thousand Monsters is not the book I was expecting, presenting strange and twisty turns in Kim Newmanâs long-running vampire mythology. Itâs also literally not the book I was expecting when it was originally announced as Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju. The promotional synopsis for that book was the following:
"In 1899 Geneviéve Dieudonné is working as a doctor on a ship of vampire refugees from Draculaâs Britain, as Christina Light, a vampire who can literally turn into light, persuades the Emperor to cede a section of Tokyo to her as the Vampire Bund, a Shanghai-like international settlement of the undead and her own power base.
New Yearâs Eve 1999 in the Vampire Bund in Tokyo, and Christina is on the cusp of completing her hundred-year plan to become an ascendant power in the world. Only vampire samurai Nezumi stands in her wayâ
In this fifth gripping novel in the acclaimed alternative history vampire series, Newman takes his story to turn-of-the-century Japan and a world of cyberpunk, kaiju, and yakuza."
Evidently, the sprawl of time and bifurcated setting proved impossible to jam into one volume, as One Thousand Monsters covers only the first paragraph of that summary, limiting the action to Geneviéveâs and Christinaâs struggles to establish a vampire refuge in Ykai Town, a walled and guarded ghetto in Tokyo to which the folktale monsters of Japanâthe ykaiâhave been banished by order of Emperor Meiji.