Wednesday, September 07, 2005

The Historian

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

I loved this book, although it did have a few weaknesses in it.

If you don't love history - especially eastern europe history - than this is probably not the book for you. Now, I don't mean that in a bad way. The book is not just a dry history book disguised as a novel. It's just that to fully understand what is happening in the book having a love of history will probably help.

The idea of searching for Dracula is an interesting one and Kostova does it with literary style. Don't pick this book up thinking it will be all about vampires because it is not. It's about the people and about a daughter learning about her father. It's more of a gothic story than horror as mysterious events happen but are not detailed in all their goryness. The story is told pretty much in first person in the form of letters from a father to a daughter. There are vampires, and there are dead walking the earth, but for the most part its full of myths and interesting characters.

My only complain is the end, which felt a bit rushed compared to the rest of the book. However, it didn't do anything to detract from my enjoyment of the book. I think this is one I'll have to pick up when it comes out in paperback as this time around I took it out of the library to read.
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---------------oOo--------------- Crown of Silence

Long time to blog, shame on me.


The Crown of Silence by Storm Constantine


This is the second book in her Magravandias trilogy. It continues the story from another view of the empire and builds the suspense up toward the Emperor's death and who will succeed him.

A bit slower in parts than the first one, but still quite good. Descriptions are lush and intriguing as before. The characters are all fully formed - with good and bad very evident.

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