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About the best thing I can say about this book is that it's over. Which is a shame, because the first half of it was quite good. A young woman discovers her apparently widowed father has spent a good part of his life tracking down Dracula - the real historical one, Vlad the Impaler of Wallachia. He slowly begins to tell his daughter the story of his college advisor who was drawn into the hunt and of his relationship with the young Romanian woman who joined the quest. And that's all very well don
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Too long, too heavy....too many layers. Your reading a story of a girl who is reading the letters of her father that is reading letters of his professor...and then you get off the bus and wonder who is telling which part of the story. Yes, you can follow along, but it doesn't need to be that complicated....and really after 500 years.....the girl is going to possibly find Dracula? Sigh.
I did enjoy learning about Vlad the Impaler (sounds like a WWF wrestler)....and it was nice to travel Eastern E ...more
I did enjoy learning about Vlad the Impaler (sounds like a WWF wrestler)....and it was nice to travel Eastern E ...more
I enjoyed this book, but read it slowly over a few months due to personal time constraints. I think it would have been even better read in a more concise time frame. I did find it rather creepy in a wonderful way, and it has been a long time since a book really freaked me out like that. It definitely made me very aware of my surroundings as I read. :)
Really more of a 3.5. Some nice twists, though.
Apr 19, 2010
Erica
marked it as to-read
Jun 12, 2010
Meredith
marked it as to-read
Mar 09, 2014
Austen_Wodehouse
marked it as to-read
