Dracula is Lucy’s curse, constantly whispering to her in the ear that she needs to go and feed on blood – something Lucy is stalwartly abstaining from. Bee is suffering from nightmares the thing that keeps her alive after death stirs every night, and Rochester just cannot shut up and keeps calling Bee. Their life is not much unlike so many other immortal characters in literature and films, they are not enjoying a rich and lavish existence.
All we know is that it was not her choice but another unasked present from Rochester. Unlike Lucy, Bee is not a vampire, but the way how she became immortal remains a secret for the first few chapters. Every night they go to an open-air movie theatre and afterwards check on Dracula’s urns: the remains in them are constantly trying to escape and return to life. They live in a decaying house they bartered for some jewellery and have just $100 left to spend. They had met each other back in London seventy years ago, immortality and their terrible partners of the past bringing them together, and soon decided to move to the States to start a new life. Short for Bertha Mason, the first wife of Edward Rochester. The story begins when we see Lucy Westenra burying one of the urns with Dracula’s remains under the Hollywood sign since it has been annoying her greatly in recent days.
Though personally not a huge fan of America 70s, I should say that LA and San Francisco of that time felt like a perfect background for the unfolding events – murky, full of hippies, so unlike Victorian England and the Romanian castles, and at the same time just right for the celebrity immortals and their reluctant victims. Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste from #BookReview #Horror #FeministRetellingįor me, Gwendolyn Kiste’s “Reluctant Immortals” was an ultimately feministic retelling, bringing together “Dracula” by Bram Stocker and “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte.
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