The Historian

Book: The Historian
Author: Elizabeth Kostova
Pages: 642

This book was really cool. It is a fiction novel about the life, death and afterlife of Vlad Tepes...who was Dracula. I don't want to get too much into the plot since it is a suspense mystery, but the book is told through three people - A professor, Rossi; his student, Paul; and Paul's daughter, the nararator. Rossi and Paul both receive books that have only a dragon in the middle, then mysterious events begin to happen. Rossi disapears, Paul's cat dies, and a strange librarian begins to follow Paul and Rossi's daughter, Helen.

Paul and Helen travel through 1950's communist Eastern Europe - Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary in search of Dracula's tomb and Professor Rossi.

I would suggest this book to anyone who likes a little fantasy and a little suspence, and vampirical activity.

Two very enthusiastic thumbs up!