Dracula vs Ma and Pa Dracula: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Vampires, Fiction
Dracula
Na história, um casal e seus amigos são atormentados por Conde Drácula, uma entidade sobrenatural e hematófoga que, presa em uma maldição contagiosa, pretende se mudar de seu recluso castelo na Transilvânia para a…
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Ma and Pa Dracula
Convinced he leads a normal life, sleeping during the day and waking at night to do lessons and play while his parents work at the blood bank, nine-year-old Jonathan is astounded when he accidentally discovers how other…
The verdict
- Readers rate Dracula highest: Dracula 4.0 · Ma and Pa Dracula 3.8.
- Ma and Pa Dracula is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 7 for Dracula.
- Dracula has the widest readership — 1534640 ratings behind its score.
- Dracula runs the darker storyline; Ma and Pa Dracula stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Dracula | Ma and Pa Dracula | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (1534640) | 3.8 (345) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (2232) | 4.0 (1) |
| Google Books | — | 4.5 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (9148) | — |
| LiveLib | 3.9 (9) | — |
Reception
| Dracula | Ma and Pa Dracula | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1534640 | 345 |
| Editions | 1917 | 10 |
| Citations | 106 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 1225985 | — |
| Reading it now | 93539 | — |
| Written reviews | 67514 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 65148 | 10082 |
| Pages | 400 | 118 |