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trishgeee 's review for:
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
What is there to say about this book? My copy of it is falling to pieces due to so many rereads. I'm at the point now where I just pick it up and turn to a random page and just read a little piece. It's like dark chocolate in that you can do that. You can open up to just a few pages and it's so rich and delicious that you feel satisfied. Sometimes. Sometimes you need the whole dang thing.
This novel is a feat. It is a heavy one. It has wonderful details that paint the cities so vividly that you feel like you are travelling through Europe right alongside the characters.
The layers in this book...! Oh the layers. Sure one could say this book is a book about history and the pursuit of knowledge and deeper understanding. You've got all these half clues that you keep learning and you know that they all have to make sense but you're just not quite sure of the big picture. There are hunts going on- hunts for answers and knowledge and finding people who have disappeared. A daughter looking for her father. A husband looking for his wife. A student looking for their mentor. All of these individual chases all taking place and unfolding to form a clear picture.
Then... Dracula. But it wasn't a vampire novel. If that makes any sort of sense. I'm pretty sure none of this blurb I'm writing makes sense.
I have a paper wreath made out of pages of this book. I can't explain why I love it so just go read it! Sit down with it and absorb it into your very being.
This novel is a feat. It is a heavy one. It has wonderful details that paint the cities so vividly that you feel like you are travelling through Europe right alongside the characters.
The layers in this book...! Oh the layers. Sure one could say this book is a book about history and the pursuit of knowledge and deeper understanding. You've got all these half clues that you keep learning and you know that they all have to make sense but you're just not quite sure of the big picture. There are hunts going on- hunts for answers and knowledge and finding people who have disappeared. A daughter looking for her father. A husband looking for his wife. A student looking for their mentor. All of these individual chases all taking place and unfolding to form a clear picture.
Then... Dracula. But it wasn't a vampire novel. If that makes any sort of sense. I'm pretty sure none of this blurb I'm writing makes sense.
I have a paper wreath made out of pages of this book. I can't explain why I love it so just go read it! Sit down with it and absorb it into your very being.