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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
This book was amazing. I could not put it down. The descriptions of the places and people were so good that you cannot help but believe they are real. I know what every place and every person looks like in my mind. It is so well written that it is hard to believe that this is fiction. If you like having history converge with imagination you will enjoy this book.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Loved this book - the hisotry of dracula and done in a great novel format. If you like history you will enjoy this book.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
600(?) pages, 26 hrs only for dracula to be the most boring, unsexy version of himself, the family to be reunited with little to no drama, and, perhaps worst of all, the main characters auction off a one-of-a-kind, incredibly rare, ancient book from dracula's personal library into a private collection. switching to the audiobook is the only reason I got through this at all
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A rather disappointing read. The opening is solid but the narrative wears itself down into absolute tedium as it attempts to -- in its own, apparently original manner -- do what Stoker masterfully does in the original, which is to break the narrative voice into diary entries, varied speakers of letters etcetera. The story gets lost, as does this reader's concern for it's growing number of main and supporting characters. When we finally meet The Historian, it's a disappointing 650+ pages too late to continue to care a whole lot about what happens. Honestly, I was rooting for Dracula by the end. And the Epilogue seems to want it this way. Sorry. Kostova, but Dan Brown can spin a narrative better than this, and with a better outcome.
A vampire book for grown-ups! I wonder if this one will be fun . . .
Purty dull for the first 200 pages. Waaaay too many churches atop lonely mountains. The story does pick up some once the daughter begins living her own life. Still, almost worth reading.
Okay, I know this is a book about graduate school historians, but do we need 8 pages of primary source material circa page 500 to advance the narrative? Ugh. I am having to force myself not to skim, and the whole experience makes me feel like I should be taking notes for a paper. Novel reading should not mimic studying for one's comprehensive exams.
The end is anticlimactic, like a piece of popped balloon.
The most fun part is how much action the card catalog gets in this novel.
Purty dull for the first 200 pages. Waaaay too many churches atop lonely mountains. The story does pick up some once the daughter begins living her own life. Still, almost worth reading.
Okay, I know this is a book about graduate school historians, but do we need 8 pages of primary source material circa page 500 to advance the narrative? Ugh. I am having to force myself not to skim, and the whole experience makes me feel like I should be taking notes for a paper. Novel reading should not mimic studying for one's comprehensive exams.
The end is anticlimactic, like a piece of popped balloon.
The most fun part is how much action the card catalog gets in this novel.
dark
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
I loved this book. I'm now reading "Swan Thieves" and enjoying that too.