A sixteen-year-old daughter of a diplomat, found among the papers of her father's library a strange book with pages white and a engraving with the figure of a dragon. Eventually discover that his father gave him the book a mysterious donor and that has some relationship to the legend of Dracula, which leads him to embark on an arduous task of research on the historical figure of Vlad Tepes, a cruel noble Wallachia on which the legend of the vampire.
I read this book three years ago, but I would love to comment on this blog. I think it's a great example of what can marketing: the shelves of book sections of big malls appeared inundated with thousands of copies of this title. Then, the novel rose to the top of the charts. In this Christmas I gave it away, I started reading with enthusiasm and ... I can say that ended up being a big disappointment. Seven hundred pages to say very little: the legend of Dracula is based on the character of Vlad the Impaler, known for his extreme cruelty and fierce enemy of the Turkish sultan Mehmet II. The plot is a mess with continuous "flashback" and "flashback flashback" bundled it all and add little. Everything is based on a "mysterious mystery" that the more one investigates least known and most confuses the reader. As I read over my embarrassment was big and when I got to the last pages only succeeded find two explanations for both nonsense: o this is a huge dream (or rather nightmare) or that pasta is the famous white book are permeated with a substance that produces hallucinations for months ...
The impression I have given is that the author after spending ten years researching the historical Dracula passionately embarked on the composition of a very pretentious work that would have everything: action, mystery, historical accuracy and would be a global bestseller ( needless to say, failed miserably, although the latter itself got it).
In short, I did not like.
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