This is the third book in the Anno Dracula series, set in an alternate world where Dracula wasn't defeated in Bram Stoker's book and has spread vampirism across Europe. You can largely ignore The Bloody Red Baron for the purposes of this book as it follows more on from the events and with the characters of the original Anno Dracula.Set in 1959, this book takes to Rome. Dracula hasn't been seen in some time but is about to get married to a Princess. Naturally, Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes C...

I have slowly been making my way through Kim Newman’s splendid Anno Dracula series for the last month or so now, and have totally brought in to his alternative universe / history genre mash up. Dracula Cha Cha Cha is however without doubt my favourite in the series so far. A glorious blood soaked love letter to golden age Italian cinema, I was totally absorbed from page one.The novel references the classic Italian giallo (murder mystery movies which featured copious amounts of blood, and which w...

Actual rating: 4,5

Newman continues to impress me with his ability to write in a broad range of styles, and continues to bring his characters through different times. I liked the fact that he allows Charles to die, holding on to his principles despite Genevieve and Kate both being desirous to turn him. His death added a more emotional form of cutting to all the gore that was portrayed elsewhere. I enjoyed the deepening of the relationships between Genevieve, Kate, and Penelope. I liked the Bava and Argento influen...

Reviewing for Hearts on Fire Reviews Fans of Horror, especially of the Vampiric subgenre, and aficionados of excellent writing, can be thankful to Titan Books for bringing Author Kim Newman’s classic trio, the “Anno Dracula” series, to a broader readership, and introducing readers (like myself) who missed out on these at first publication, to an outstanding set of books. Mr. Newman knows his history about as well as any historian; and the details he brings to light and to life are extraordinaril...

The third part of the Anno series. A solid and engaging story with the usual clever references. This however I found to be a slower and morre difficult read than previous and struggled to get through.If you're a fan you'll love it, if it's not your usual choice of genre you possibly won't.

I wanted something fun, frothy and disposable to keep me entertained on a long journey. This book did the job perfectly adequately.

The third installment in Newman’s wonderful Anno Dracula series(which I misread as Anna Dracula and avoided for years), but hopefully not the last. Offering the type of fun offered by Alan Moore or Mike Mignola comics or a hyper dense with cultural in jokes cartoon like the brilliant Venture Brothers (only good thing on Adult Swim), but with fully rounded characters. This time the novels of Ian Fleming and Patricia Highsmith,and the films of Dario Argento and Federico Fellini combine in a story

To all of you who love this book... sorry! I though this book was awful. The plot was dire, the characterisation was dreadful. The James bond joke was pointless and made no sense. The writing is poor and I gave up on Newman after wading through this tosh. Mind I did better than a friend of mine who got halfway and threw it in the bin!

Four stars for 'Dracula Cha Cha Cha' and about 3 for the novella appended to this edition, 'Anno Dracula 1968-Aquarius'. For 'Dracula Cha Cha Cha', I'm going to echo my update comment here and reaffirm that this is an exceptionally fun, campy, and lively piece of vampire fiction; anyone who loves the films of Fellini, Pasolini, even cinema giallo, will have a great time with this book. Well-etched little cameos abound and Newman continues to draw inspiration from both fiction and real life in a

Why, why in the name of all that's profane was "Dracula Cha Cha Cha" retitled "Judgment of Tears" for the North American market? I would never read a book actually titled "Judgment of Tears." "Dracula Cha Cha Cha," on the other hand, that's a title with moxie!

4/5DRACULA CHA-CHA-CHA is the third volume of the Anno Dracula series and moves our story up to the late 1950s. It is an homage to the European romance movies of the period like Roman Holiday as well as Italian giallo (proto slasher films). It is certainly a far cry from the original steampunk Anno Dracula novel but it is still an impressive mixture of historical as well as fictional characters from the time period. It also has Commander Hamish Bond, barely disguised from his Sean Connery incarn...

The alternate timeline allows for some funny celebrity cameos and character Easter eggs. Like at one point they go to Dr Herbert West to reanimate Dracula lol. But the actual plot is half baked and boring.

Mr Newman does it again,excellent throughout, loved the writing,the carachters and the storybso clever and fresh, utterly brilliant!! My rating Excellent

I only gave this three stars because of the references. Let me explain.This book is set in 1950s europe, surrounding the impending marriage of Dracula to another vampire royal. You see, vampires are mainstream here, existing among normal people in a manner vaguely echoing the upper class, jet-setters, and hoi-polloi in the real world. They are seen as glamorous, in control, and tend to be reacted to rather than just part of life. Kate Reed is a vampire journalist who gets caught up in the murder...

Not as enjoyable for me as the first book. Maybe it's because I just don't find the 1950s that interesting.Usual parade of amusing rain checks and in jokes, but not enough real plot to hold my interest for long.A pleasant read for a quiet afternoon.

‘Dracula Cha Cha Cha’ is brilliant. It’s fun, exciting, tense and a fantastic addition to the ‘Anno Dracula mythos. The setting is Rome in the last 1950s, where Genevieve, Kate and Penny once again find themselves crossing paths with the most famous vampire of them all: Dracula. The setting itself is without a doubt borrowed from ‘Roman Holiday’ and Federico Fellini films (although I see this one in shiny Technicolor, rather than black and white), but that faded glamour of Rome works so well as

With Book Three of the Anno Dracula series we reach the late 1950’s and 1960’s. A time of European opulence and Mediterranean glamour, epic film making and spy thrillers such as Ian Fleming’s James Bond and Len Deighton’s Harry Palmer. Not to mention vampires.Old Vlad (Count Dracula) is still around and at the start of the book due to marry again – this time to Asa Vajda, Princess of Moldova. Kate Reed, vampyrric super-reporter and erstwhile secret-agent for the mysterious Diogenes Club, is in R...

Originally published November 12, 2012, at BORG.com.British spy Bond seduces readers as a vampire in Kim Newman Dracula novelReview by C.J. BunceRe-released in book stores last month was Kim Newman’s alternate history/fantasy/steampunk-esque novel Dracula Cha Cha Cha (formerly published as Judgment of Tears), book three of the Anno Dracula series originally released in 1998. You need not read books one and two of the series to be able to fully dive into this incredible and bizarre parallel histo...

Third book in the Anno Dracula series, and this time Newman takes his vampire heroines to Rome, 1959, to attend the wedding of the greatest vampire. Newman practically invented metatextual fiction, in which characters and images from other things are woven through new novels (Alan Moore gets the credit for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but Anno Dracula was there first). Here he pushes that almost to the point of exhaustion, with a myriad cameo appearances infecting the plot. Some are deligh...