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This reminded me so much of Da Vinci code. Interesting story, check. HORRIBLE dialogue that made me want to stab myself in the eye... check. Knowing what would happen on about page 14... check.
My friend gave this to me as a book that she loved, so I know that this book will have a huge audience. For me, there are certain crimes in dialoque that just make me insane. Namely, when the dialoque is not equal to the person - gar. The father telling his daughter the story of how attracted he was to he ...more
My friend gave this to me as a book that she loved, so I know that this book will have a huge audience. For me, there are certain crimes in dialoque that just make me insane. Namely, when the dialoque is not equal to the person - gar. The father telling his daughter the story of how attracted he was to he ...more
so it took me a lot longer to read than i thought it would, but for the record, my copy of this book has over 900 pages, not under 700.
the beginning was engrossing, in part because of the beautiful history. there is so much here based on real and true history, and how history should be done - it didn't really matter that most of the history was about medieval times, or whatever, it was the sanctity of how history is done and it's purpose that really engrossed me and made me say, "yes! yes! it i ...more
the beginning was engrossing, in part because of the beautiful history. there is so much here based on real and true history, and how history should be done - it didn't really matter that most of the history was about medieval times, or whatever, it was the sanctity of how history is done and it's purpose that really engrossed me and made me say, "yes! yes! it i ...more
Excruciating...derivative, boring and hugely overrated.
As a big fan of historical fiction, I fell into this book head first and didn't come up for air for a couple of weeks. Medieval Europe fascinates me and this book played right into that with it's stories of Constantinople and Dracula. But the author sometimes lost me in the switching between present and past and there were times were I really wasn't sure who was narrating the story. Also, at times the story got a bit tedious and I wish I could have skipped 30 pages ahead. I honestly couldn't bel
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I wanted to like this book but I didn't. I listened to this on audiobook which is over 25 hours long - it took me over a month to finish. I thought it would be perfect for October due to the Dracula premise. It was okay to listen to on dark, cool evenings on my commute home from work, but there was too much minutia which didn't hold my attention and I kept getting lost. The last 5 hours were okay and the part I was able to focus on best. The names and places were all foreign to me and maybe that
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This is a tough book for me to rate. There were times when it was a solid 4, and times when it was a 2. I decided to average them out. I loved it for the first 400 pages or so, but when the entire book became a series of letters and drab history, I became very bored. It livened up again toward the end, and overall I did enjoy it. It's interesting because there's an interview with Elizabeth Kostova at the end, and the interviewer makes a comment about how her extensive education doesn't get in th
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It went on f o r e v e r -- and not in a good way!
Apr 13, 2007
Rachel
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it was ok
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historical-fiction
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