Fred Jenkins’s Reviews > The Historian > Status Update

I felt sure those big square Puritan churches on the town green would be helpless in the face of a European vampire. A little witch burning was more in their line--something limited to the neighbors.

One of the few things I dislike about this book is the heroine's lack of a name. I suspect Kostova like to imagine herself in the role, but had reservations both about calling her Elizabeth and about giving her another name.

My father's library had probably once been a sitting room, but he sat down only to read, and he considered a large library more important than a large living room.