I came across a copy of The Historian in 2006. My mother had talked to me about the book. She is part of a book club and they had just recently read it. My mother knowing my obsession with vampires talked to me about it and I was excited about reading a book with a "serious" story about the beginning of vampires or at least Dracula!. When my birthday came that year she gave me as a copy of the book as a gift. I was still in school but during the mornings I used to work so that day I took it to work with me and then I did not stop.
The Historian is Elizabeth Kostova's novel. It was published on 2005.
The story begins in Amsterdam 1972. The narrator, whose name is never known, finds between her father's books a fancy notebook-like book with a dragon carved on the front. She asked her father, Paul, about it and he begans telling her the story of the book and where it took him back when he was about to graduate in the 1950´s. Turns out that Paul was a scholar that dedicated his time to study the origins of Dracula. The narrator becomes obsessed with this story and begins her own research on the subject until she finds a series of letters directed to her and where her father lets her know that he is going away to get her mother back. The narrator decides that she is going to follow his father and help him found her mother.
The letters that the narrator finds, and reads through her journey in search of her parents, take us to Istambul, Rumania and Bulgary. The secrets that the leters behold are amazing and terrifying at the same time. We get to read about Vlad Tepes' story and the reason why everyone thinks he became in what we all have come to know as Dracula.
As the narrator travels across Eastern Europe the story develops trhough the letters that Paul has left for her. Through her journey the narrator is able to find love and her identity. At the end of her journey she finds out that she does have to save her mother from her number one enemy, which brings an amazing end to the novel that Kostova has provided us with.
The book in my opinion is amazing, you can imagine every single landscape, you can taste every beverage and wine they taste. You are trapped in Eastern Europe and at times you do not want to leave. The suspense takes over you to the point that you might feel the need to look around to make sure no vampire is lurking on you. The book is amazing and is written in a way that only someone that had dedicated years to the research could have accomplished.
If you like vampires, the teen self centered ones, the scary ones, the ones that stand sunlight, the ones that can't, the ones that are evil and the ones that fall in love, then you should read this book because it brings you and understanding of the myth and the reason why we all are here reading, writing and daydreaming about vampires.
Have a Fangtastic Tale
The Historian is Elizabeth Kostova's novel. It was published on 2005.
The story begins in Amsterdam 1972. The narrator, whose name is never known, finds between her father's books a fancy notebook-like book with a dragon carved on the front. She asked her father, Paul, about it and he begans telling her the story of the book and where it took him back when he was about to graduate in the 1950´s. Turns out that Paul was a scholar that dedicated his time to study the origins of Dracula. The narrator becomes obsessed with this story and begins her own research on the subject until she finds a series of letters directed to her and where her father lets her know that he is going away to get her mother back. The narrator decides that she is going to follow his father and help him found her mother.
The letters that the narrator finds, and reads through her journey in search of her parents, take us to Istambul, Rumania and Bulgary. The secrets that the leters behold are amazing and terrifying at the same time. We get to read about Vlad Tepes' story and the reason why everyone thinks he became in what we all have come to know as Dracula.
As the narrator travels across Eastern Europe the story develops trhough the letters that Paul has left for her. Through her journey the narrator is able to find love and her identity. At the end of her journey she finds out that she does have to save her mother from her number one enemy, which brings an amazing end to the novel that Kostova has provided us with.
The book in my opinion is amazing, you can imagine every single landscape, you can taste every beverage and wine they taste. You are trapped in Eastern Europe and at times you do not want to leave. The suspense takes over you to the point that you might feel the need to look around to make sure no vampire is lurking on you. The book is amazing and is written in a way that only someone that had dedicated years to the research could have accomplished.
If you like vampires, the teen self centered ones, the scary ones, the ones that stand sunlight, the ones that can't, the ones that are evil and the ones that fall in love, then you should read this book because it brings you and understanding of the myth and the reason why we all are here reading, writing and daydreaming about vampires.
Have a Fangtastic Tale
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