The Historian

This tale is written the old fashioned way but it's a new take on Dracula. A young woman discovers an ancient book and a labyrinth of secrets involving her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connected to evil hidden in the depths of history. To quote the Observer "A spirited update of Bram Stocker's classic, with a vastly ingenious plot in which Dracula has developed a mysterious penchant for librarians. Kostova is a whiz at storytelling and narrative pace". There are 704 pages and I... more

I finished The Historian. I listened to it because my mom said it was a good vampire book and we listened to it in the car. It is a vampire book but not a new one. It is a book that is like a schoolbook. Parts of it are about a girl and her dad and those parts are good and then the girl goes on a hunt when he dad goes missing and she finds this secret book that she was not supposed to find.

Then she finds out even more secrets and some are cool but most of the book is a long description of a... more

This is such a superbly constructed novel, the framework being told by the narrator, never named, but the majority of the book in epistolary form through the letters and journals of her father and her father's professor, with some additional letters from her mother. It perhaps this, along with the pacing, which gives the book a slightly old-fashioned feel, but this certainly isn't a cause for complaint. The way that the narrator reads something in her father's journal that he has discovered in a... more

Hey everyone, Im not on here too often because school is keeping me very busy! Im working on my BA right now and the work is never ending. Well I thought I would make a book suggestion. I see a lot of people love the Twilight books, I tried to read them and I just couldnt do the soap opera vampire stuff, but my opinion is biased we all like different things. If you like vampires however, there is a great book out called The Historian by Elizabeth Kostava. It is probably a top ten favorite of m... more