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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Ouch. Oct 25, 2009
I picked this one out because I've been interested in the Countess of Bathory for some time and it's difficult to find too many books about this woman. Misinformation abounds everywhere and this book has seized on every unlikely rumor in a seeming effort just to shock the reader.
Really, this is a low-grade pornography/BDSM book which is being marketed as historical fiction. Not that I have any problem with explicitly sexual/violent books, I just prefer that they advertise the fact first.
Given that there is little actually known about the Countess other than legend, the author can be forgiven for writing whatever off-the-wall rumor about the woman they came across. It's fiction, after all. It's just that 90% of the book was spent trying to make the next violent/sexual scene more shocking (and nauseating) than the last.
Other obvious historical errors were involved....for example, influenza was not even remotely identified as such until the early 1700s, yet it is diagnosed in this book some 200 years before. Little things like that, which wouldn't be a big deal were not the novel lacking in other ways.
Dialogue is written in a painfully modern vernacular, which doesn't help things either. I'm pretty sure the Countess's husband never observed that she seemed "stressed." Grrrrr.
All in all, I'd skip this one if I were you, although I wish I had a good Bathory historical fiction novel to direct you to instead. I'm still looking for that myself. If you find you can't resist, this may be a library checkout instead?
1 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 a huge terrible rip-off Jul 12, 2009
This so called book is nothing but the rambling of a woman who thinks she is the rebirth of the Countess. It is a way for her to make money on her obsession and plays to her huge misguided ego. AMAZON SHOULD BE ASHAME TO HAVE THIS SO CALLED BOOK IN THERE LIBRARY FOR SALE. DO NOT BE FOOLED BY HER FOLLOWERS LIES IN THERE FAKE REVIEWS!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Addicting read!!! May 12, 2009
This book is so amazing that as soon as it arrived and I turned the first page I was hooked! I was so drawn to it that I finished reading it the same day it arrived because I was unable to stop reading it! This is strange for a person like myself because I am normally not a the reading type and tend to get bored quickly so the fact that this book grabbed my attention says a lot!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Bathory Memoir of a Countess Apr 26, 2009
This is a great book, a real page turner. I read it in 2 days. I would recommend it to anyone who likes to read about Countess Bathory.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 A Bit Perverted.... Apr 08, 2009
This novel is certainly not for the easily offended or faint of heart. The murder scenes are gorey and violent and the sex is rather perverted.. and there is a lot of it. I think there was more sex than murder which says a lot considering the Countess of Bathory supposedly murdered 600 or more people. This novel begins with her as a young girl (I am unsure of age as she is sleeping on her nanny's bossum one moment and the next she is losing her virginity) and all around her there is violence. Her father, mother, brother, everybody except servants is killing, raping, or torturing someone. Even as a young girl, the Countess seems to enjoy it tho. She marries and graduates into the same vile behavior. However, she begins to murder "noble" girls instead of just servant girls, leading to her eventual imprisonment. She had an obsession with growing old and was jealous of young girls and if this book is to believed, she had an extensive and varied sexual appetite. If you want blood and gore and sex, go for it. If I may make a recommendation tho, for those that want gothic horror, I suggest Anne Rice's Beauty books. They have nothing to do with Countess of Bathory but the sex is more tasteful and the violence is not so sickening.
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