A review by akatdare
The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova

3.0

3.6/5. I enjoyed the story overall although it did drag at points. The protagonist, Alexandra, seemed to be kind of…meh. I don’t know how else to describe her, she didn’t seem to do much in the book outside of be cute/naïve/innocent and thus win people over. The other characters were much more interesting. It wasn’t, ultimately, as immersive or haunting as The Historian was. I had to suspend a lot of belief to get into the story; Alexandra essentially throws caution to the wind repeatedly throughout the novel in a strange country where she’s traveling by herself. Again, just extreme naïveté.