As someone who used to live in Transylvania, I am abashed that I don’t know more about the original Dracula story. I still loved this story which postulates “Hey what if his first victim... lived?” It’s a sapphic vampire tale of female empowerment (unlike the original) which takes place both through journals at or about the time of her original death and then a more modern day story. The stories converge in sometimes expected and other times unexpected ways.