Being an avid book reader, I was one of the roughly 29 million to read The Twilight Saga.
I hated it.
Original vampire books were filled with suspense and horror. The vampires Stephanie Meyer popularized completely destroyed that. The Historian goes quite a long way to repairing the damage done to vampires by Meyer’s teenage, cold-blooded dreamboats.
In The Historian a young woman discovers an ominous leather bound book inscribed with the word “Drakyula.” After some snooping and research, she finds out not only that Drakyula refers to the person behind the ancient Dracula myths, Vlad the Impaler, but she also finds out her father found a similar book years ago. In the midst of her father telling her the story of the book he discovered and the mysterious disappearance of the her mother, the narrator is thrust into adventure and intrigue.
While at points The Historian drags through some repetitive sequences, the majority of the book was enough to make me consider reading it again and definitely enough to make me recommend it to fans of the non-sparkly type of vampires.