"to you, Perceptive Reader, I Bequeath my History..."

                                        The Historian

by Elizabeth Kostova

"TO YOU, PERCEPTIVE READER, I BEQUEATH MY HISTORY..."

This novel is  alot better than I was expecting. I have seen it among a friend’s luggage then later saw it at the library. Having just come off three weeks of nineteenth century novelists, I thought, Oh, something light would be a cool change. After all, I thought. Vampires. The book is about vampires. And not just any vampire, but the dark lord himself, Dracula, the real Vlad the Impaler, who turns out to be the undead.

Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.