The Stress of Her Regard

I liked this book but didn't love it. It's a vampire novel set in an alternate early 1800s where the protagonist crosses paths with Lord Byron, Mary and Percy Shelley, and John Keats as he tries to destroy vampires. The premise is good and the prose is gorgeous, but the pacing is slow. For a 400+ page book with tiny print, the pacing needed to be tighter. There were many times when I wanted to put the book down because nothing was happening. Even the ending is slow. But it's basically a very good story. It won the Mythopoeic Award in 1990.

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