Book Review: The Historian

by Elizabeth Kostova

Awesome. It's a big book especially for a slow reader like myself, but I had a great time reading it. I'm all about books that mix in a bit of history (my all-time faves are The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas), and this book fits right in there...I guess most people call that "historical fiction". In any case, I'm all about it. If you read the DaVinci Code, this is a more sophisticated and better version in my opinion.

The book is centered around Dracula, the mystery surrounding his legend, and the search for his grave in order to take him down that has spanned centuries. It's not a horror book, like my sterotype of a vampire story...it's more of an adventure, suspense, thriller that takes you on a journey throughout Europe and its history. My interest was definitely peaked even more having just been in Turkey this summer, and with much of the book taking place there. And I was definitely kept awake a little longer than usual each night by this book because I'm a big baby, but that's no secret.

I'd recommend it highly. I thought it was really well-written, but what do I know about good writing...I'm an engineer!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316011770?v=glance