The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - C-
The question I ask myself is how can I give this book a C- when I stayed up until almost 3 am just to finish it. On a work night no less.
I finished this book the same weekend we went to the beach. We did alot of reading that weekend and Sunday it sucked me in enough to finish it. Perhaps I was just wanting to be done. At 676 pages of fairly small print on large pages it is quite a long read.
I have two major problems with this book. One was the overuse of descriptions of places and things that had no relevance on the story. She was describing them in such detail that I found myself almost skimming over those paragraphs towards the end. I mean I was reading them but so fast sometimes not taking it all in. And after being bombarded so many times with so many details, like the color and size of some dome on some historical building, it was driving me crazy.
The other problem, and this is sort of a spoiler, was the ease at which they dispatched Dracula at the end. All that reading, a guy alive for 500+ years, and they take him out with 4 people in a small room... it was anti-climatic and it sucked.
Later
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