Historian

I enjoyed it - like a better written Da Vinci Code (not that that would be a huge feat.) I liked the multi layered narrative going back and forward in time before coming together at the end - though, yes it did seem a rather sudden and easy vanquishing of the vampire. If you like your vampires with a twist, try Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum. My swordhand is singing by Marcus Sedgwick is also a good vampire novel taking the myth much further back - no suave counts in this one!

I honestly could not finish this book. I had a very difficult time getting into it.

Now this did it for me - the academia, the ploughing through histories of families and countries, and the horror always one jump ahead (until near the end)really dragged me in. Funny, 'cos vampires really don't do it for me. I wonder if there was a lot of research for this, or if she just made it up, but I believed everything she(the author) told me - always the sign of a well-told story.

This book bored me to tears -- quite a feat for a book about vampires, a subject you'd assume would be at least somewhat interesting.

I enjoyed it too, however I did find the ending quite rushed and it spoilt it slightly for me.

i loved this book it held me captive from the minute i started reading it was imaginative and spellbinding.