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Thank you very much for your generosity Vixen24601!

I liked this book. Actually I liked it mostly for its "flaws".
I didn't find the characters that much fleshed out while some scenes were perveived on a rather modern sight and weren't that much convincing. I don't think this book is as much analytic, detailed or deep as you would expect from a historical novel. But while I didn't get crazy about the book, this is why I still liked it a lot. There are no pages after pages describing to death each character's history and background, there are no pages after pages with over the top love stories or over the top melodrama.

Furthermore, dealing with a place and era where many things happened at the same time, diplomatic and real wars and other stuff that might happen in a specific area but might impact another area, the author had to decide what to keep and what to drop from his book and what to mention shortly or include in detail. For a quite short book, the author made a good job, avoiding leaving huge gaps in the narration.
I think this novel is a decent choice if you are in a mood to avoid the usual looong huge historical novels/books/bricks that try to include the smaller details, and you prefer something more compact and shorter.

That said, I didn't like at all the end of the book. The scene featuring the death of Vlad Dracula was a let down while I didn't like at all the final chapter of the book. It was contrary to the spirit of all the previous narration. There was absolutely no need for a sudden turn towards the paranormal element!

Anyway, I generally enjoyed reading Vlad Dracula by Michael Augustyn. Not extraordinary, but very decent!

Vlad Dracula enjoyed his stay in Greece, but started to get itchy feet again and wants to trot the globe, making many new friends along the way! So for a start off he goes to London, UK along with some other travelers, in order to support the Lewisham Station bookshelf!

And then...Who knows?

Good Luck little book and Don't forget to write your news from time to time!