By Elizabeth Kostova
A very innovative way to write. The author tells this story through a series of scientific papers, letters and postcards. It follows the adventures and research of three generations of scientists who have devoted their lives (unwillingly) to finding the truth about Dracula. There were a few mechanical tricky spots that were obviously hard to maneuver the story around. Instead of inventing hokey tales to explain how the narrator can jump from one place to another the author sometimes refrains from giving any explanation other than “some stuff happened” which is usually hard to absorb into a story but, in this case, actually lent some strength to the idea of the story being told as though pieced together from several different sources. I liked the ideas the author shares about Dracula. I was also intrigued about the landscapes and culture of Romania, Turkey and other eastern European countries.