The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
The Historian(1/28/2012)
Of the hundreds of books I have read this is easily the most poorly written. The ideas are derivative like so many of the books which float in the wake of Dan Brown. There's evidence of a lot of research but the attitude seems to be 'I've worked hard getting all this together and I'm going to cram it all in if it kills me!' Add a dash of Dracula and you end up with an utter waste of time.
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