It would take a lot to kill a runaway bestseller like Kostova's debut. The Historian is a story about a centuries-long vampire hunt from a historian, Paul, as he slowly tells the sage of his covert research to his teenage daughter. Paul's tale is supposed to be a secret, painfully pried from him by his daughter for whose safety he fears, but Paul recites it in a nonchalant and impersonal way.
Rate **** 4/5, Wow, what a read, all 642 pages of it. It was a story about a girl who found a book in her father's library about the search for Count Dracula. This is a book very rich with history that takes one all over Europe and especially Bulgaria. It is not a light read, but I am glad that I read it. Excellent for a first novel.
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