The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova ***

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is a story of a girl whose name does not get revealed because she is the one telling the story. The story starts with her one night wandering through her father’s library only to come across an ancient book and faded letters addressed to “My Dear and Unfortunate Successor.” She’s tortured by not knowing the secrets of her father’s past. As she digs deeper into the letters’ meaning, she is led to an evil hidden deep in the corners of history. The letters in fact lead to a century-long search of the truth of Vlad the Impaler, the most feared ruler of not just his time. For years historians have risked their sanity and even their lives to find his secrets. Now, she has to decide to either find them or follow in her father’s footsteps into a world that destroyed him when he was a young man. Will the stories she discoveries in Ivy League Libraries come close to the secret that no one in history has found?

by Paige B.