Will Dracula Die? (The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova)

Member Name: Jonni_boi

Product:	The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Date:	16/03/08 (49 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Really Gripping

Disadvantages: Impossible to put down

This Book is really good and before I start this review I would like to say that this book was nominated for the Richard & Judy's Galaxy Award but lost out to another book. In my opinion this book should have won instead as I feel that it is that good and deserves an award. What shocked me the most was that this is the first book Elizabeth Kostova has ever written and published. To be honest I felt as it had been written by a more skilled author, what I mean is that it felt as if someone like J.R.R. Tolkein or J.K. Rowling or James Herbert or Stephen King had written it. Somebody famous or somebody who had written a lot of books. Obviously Elizabeth Kostova is what I call a new author therefore this being her first book. This story is so gripping it didn't feel like a first book off a new author. SERIOUSLY THIS BOOK IS REALLY GOOD!

Anyway after that little introduction piece of writing up above I might as well try and make you enjoy reading this review and try to persuade you to buy this book for your benefit if I haven't already.

Now this book starts the story in first person which I prefer because then I understand the feelings much better of the person who is telling me the story. She is 16 years old and she finds something secret in her father's library. She asks her father about this and then in the next chapter the 16 year old girl is no longer in the story, and you start reading about the story her father is now telling her. Later on in the book her father carries on with his story which leads into another story. If I have now confused you I'll tell you what I mean... Firstly the girl finds this secret and asks her father about it... Her father then tells her the start of a story where he comes across the same secret... He asks about this to his friend (who happens to be a professor) and the professor tells him about his experience with a look-a-like of that same secret. Then you eventually finish the little experience that the professor had, where the father can't tell the girl about his entire experience because it is enormously long. So he leaves it in cliff hangers and at times you don't know who is telling us their story, the girl, or her father.
Eventually you sort it all out and you understand fully, you try to quicken your pace at reading it and urging the book to get back to her father's story as it is usually left at a perfect cliff hanger. At one time I remember picking this book up at about 10pm and I read about 100-200 pages then the next time I looked at the clock it was 7am and my alarm went off. I got out of my bed and tried my best to leave the book but I was always left at a cliff-hanger so I pulled a sickey just to finish this book!

Okay, okay, I wasn't too keen on it when I picked it up in Waterstones the reason for this was because I have been told it was about Dracula. but I urged myself to read it and I'm really happy that I urged myself to do so otherwise I would never had read this book and if anyone asked me what my favourite book is I would definitely say this book!

If I still haven't persuaded you to read this then you must have no heart or you hate reading. This book is for all readers around the entire world, and I bet you Dracula has also read it! Don't be put off with the complicated starting it is a brilliant story and perfect for every reader imaginable also perfect for non-readers. And also don't be put off with it having 704 pages (longer than the Harry Potter books) especially since you don't realise it's 704 pages, it feels more like 100-200 it is that good.

I promise you, you won't be disappointed with this book.

Summary: The Best Book I have Ever Read!!!