Jodie Ramodien

to our society at large because it kind of like when it goes into the future and it's more dystopian and like the world has like gone to shit like I mean we're almost there but um we're there we're only a couple of decades off from where this book takes us um but like it's kind of like you can look at society at large and go

We just take, take, take and give nothing back.

And this is the consequence of that.

I was in early high school, I think.

I had gone into Dimmicks on George Street and bought the, like, with the pocket money that I had, I had bought the, like, beautiful red, like, leather edition.

And I had taken it home and I had started it.

And I was like, I kind of hate this.

I just wasted my money, but I had already thrown the receipt away.

So it sat.

In my cupboard for ages and then I would like periodically try again and each time get a little bit further or sometimes like go to a different point in the book and start from there.

So I have a very fraught relationship with Dracula.

No, I was like I love vampires.

I love Vampire Academy.

Like.

Yeah.

Dracula, Dimitri, it's all the same.

It's all the same.

When did you finally finish it?

Um, my first full read through from start to finish, I think was maybe towards the end of high school, or maybe it was early uni, something like that.

And then I read it again last year through a sub stack called Dracula Daily, where they, because you know how it's,