I actually started this one a couple of years ago and only got about 250 pages into it. I picked it up again the other day and became enthralled.returnreturnAdventure, love, legend - this book has a lot going for it. Dracula has taken one of our academic friends and we're on hot pursuit to find him. The strengths of this book is that I truly felt like a fellow academic, chugging through the hills of Europe on a train and burrowing in medieval libraries and museums looking for clues. The weakness (for me) was that at times it felt a little tedious - the research of these academics was thorough and I'm not a researcher.returnreturnIn all - good fun, worth the dry spots, and 4 stars.