The Historian turned into a two-week book...for a couple of reasons. For one thing, at the beginning, I was so creeped out that I had a hard time reading it near bedtime. Secondly, it was a really long book. As I neared the end of the book, I found myself wishing two things:
1) That I had read Bram Stoker's "Dracula" before reading this
2) That the book had ended much sooner than it did. At 79 chapters plus an epilogue, I felt that it took far longer to tell the story than it could have.
At first, I was intrigued by this varied group of historians hunting Dracula through the years. I was disturbed and completely creeped out by the librarian vampire who appears early on. But by the end, I was no longer surprised or scared by anything. The various encounters seemed to take on a formulaic pattern, and I was disappointed.
Still on vampires, but much lighter reading - this week I'm reading "Living Dead in Dallas" the second book in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris...
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