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indigodragonfly 's review for:
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
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.