Friday, January 29, 2010

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

There are many reserves out at the library on this book and I really don’t know why except that it’s about vampires perhaps. It’s very, very long and very, very wordy. It has three or four versions of the narrative all mixed up – a bit like a history research project with lots of original sources used to make the case. But there’s nothing elegant about it. I don’t know why I bothered finishing it actually except for sheer orneryness – it’s about a group of people who mysteriously obtain books with a dragon in them and then when they do some research on vampires get warned off because horrible things happen to people near them. Some, inevitably, get sucked into the vampire’s net. Rubbish really. 1 star.

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