Dracula, Bram Stoker's blood thirsty monster who has enchanted our nightmares since 1897. Few know however that Stoker based his fictional villain on none other than real life horror Prince Vlad Ţepeş of Wallachia. Also known as Vlad the Impaler, Ţepeş by the end of his reign not only murdered thousands of his enemies but thousands of his own country men. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is narrated by a young girl who slowly unravels the truth behind her family's mysterious past. Her father is a learned historian and a very intelligent man and a doting father. however as soon as he begins to retell a haunting tale from his past relating to Vlad Ţepeş and Dracula, mysterious things happen which lead to his disappearance and the ghosts of the research he left behind. It is now up to his daughter, who has a hunger for adventure, to piece together his precarious investigation and pray that it leads to his whereabouts in a journey that will take her all across Europe and which might even lead to the lair of Drakulya. I consider this novel to be incredibly exciting, impossible to put down, and refreashingly addicting.
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