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Review title: Engaging - Well worth your time
Product review: I was daunted at first by the shear length of the book, but quickly became engrossed with the story. Ms. Kostovo knows how to pull you in... Most of the book is told through letters written by a diplomat to his daughter, explaining their family's strange history. In it, the reader also enters the worlds of Istanbul/Constantinople, Budapest, Bulgaria, Wallachia and Transylvania (Romania today) -- areas at war with the Ottoman Empire during the reign of the real Dracula, Vlad the Impaler. With this history, the author mixes in clever clues based on iconic church images that direct the diplomat and his daughter in their search for the tomb of this tyrant. Unlike many novels that successfully weave a tale of suspense only to disappoint the reader with a unsatisfying conclusion (Da Vinci Code, for example), the ending of this story is worth the time it takes to get there. If you don't like history, you won't like this book. If you do, you'll love it.
