My first thoughts on chapter 3 were disappointing ones. It just seemed to drag the story along, mentioning all these different things happening but not really making anything of them. It just felt like a timeline. I know its in a diary form so the character is not trying to make a story out of it but just merely telling what happened but as stories go it just wasn't that good. The only thing like about this chapter, which overlaps with the next one, is the fact that it does go into the inner thoughts of the character very well. I like the parts where he is questioning himself and asking himself whether he is going mad. Which i suppose is a sign of madness in its own right.
In the next chapter (Chapter 4) i think it is better done as he is then coming to terms with everything going on and finding out all the inner truths that lurk in Dracula's place. Also the reader gets to learn more about the place which Dracula lives.
In the story, Jonathan finds out about Dracula and Dracula knows that he knows whats going on. I find it quite funny that Dracula seems to act mostly normal when in contact with Jonathan almost as if nothing it going on.
My favourite part of these two chapters is the point when the main character sees the three specs in the moonlight which, at first seems very innocent but then it slowly starts to change and then turns into these phantom style things which then makes Jonathan run away in great fear.
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I really like the way you are honest about your impressions here. There is quite a lot of soul-searching by JH, but this is possibly a way for the author to allow the tension to relax slightly, so that he can then build it up again: if it were just to get more and more and more exciting, it would run out of steam fairly quickly - it needs the dips to make the peaks more exciting - such as the vampire women! Look at my blog for comments on why these are so effective.
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