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Title: Not so great
Review: Although very readable, THE HISTORIAN suffers a ridiculously slow pace (yes, stuff is happening, but it's the same stuff--over and over again), a plot that's chock full of coincidence, and characters that ultimately aren't that interesting. I love a good historical epic--even one with a slow build--but I had to give up on this one about 350 pages in. If a book hasn't hooked me by then, it's not going to. And the fact that characters "just happened" to keep meeting people who were also studying Dracula eventually just got too overwhelmingly implausible to ignore. If you want a weighty historical tome with some supernatural elements, I highly recommend Robert McCammon's The Queen of Bedlam or Katherine Neville's The Eight instead.
