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 Mariella is an over-protected, sheltered girl who lives mainly to sew and to long to be with Henry, her lifetime love. Her life gets interesting when her cousin Rosa, a girl who is nearly her complete opposite, comes to live with Mariella and her family. Rosa is beautiful, high-spirited, and passionate about nursing and helping people. When the Crimean war begins, both Henry, a doctor, and Rosa go to the war effort. When Henry falls ill, Mariella must go to him. His strange request sends her to the Crimea, to the heart of a war she never wanted to get involved in, but where she finds hidden strength and who she really is.
I didn’t expect to like this too much, given that it’s had mediocre reviews, but that made it a very pleasant surprise when I did like it. Mariella is a bit dull at first, but watching her come into her own is so satisfying. The revelation at the end didn’t come as a complete surprise but had me looking back through the book, seeing things with new eyes. Besides that, the Crimean war seems to be a rare topic in historical fiction and I loved it as a backdrop; I felt like I was learning, and this war seemed far more similar to modern wars than those in most of the historical fiction I read. And I did end up satisfied with the ending; I didn’t feel that way at first, but the distance of a week has settled the book into my mind and I think it’s perfect. I also really enjoyed the author’s prose style and found it both lovely and captivating.
Another recommended read; obviously not everyone has liked it as much as I have, but it’s definitely worth a try. Pre-order it on Amazon.
 Spoilers for The Firemaster’s Mistress are in this review, as this book is its sequel.
Francis Quoynt is still torn up that Kate chose his father over him. With no compelling reason to stay in England, he accepts Cecil’s command to go to La Spada and fulfill an extremely important loan that Cecil himself granted to the Prince. The Prince of La Spada is dying and will accept Francis’s services as firemaster as payment. Francis has no idea why the Prince chose him, and he has even less of an idea about the trouble he’s getting himself into – or about the lovely principessa who has a mind and will of her own.
I was thrilled to discover that there was a sequel to The Firemaster’s Mistress. As you’ll know if you’ve read my review, I didn’t like the fact that Kate chose Boomer. Having read this book, I am much more satisfied with that ending, because otherwise there would have been no Sofia. The dynamics between this couple are intense, and if possible the speed of the plot is even more so. I greatly enjoyed it. Since La Spada was fictional, Dickason could create a plausible Italy city-state but provide us with a story entirely of her own making.
There isn’t much else to say about a book I liked so much. I’d definitely recommend this one if you like historical fiction. It’s only available in the UK at the moment; here’s the Amazon link.
 I think many of us who read a lot of historical fiction hear about Elizabeth Chadwick. Her books are not available to Americans except through imports, which is a shame, and quite strange considering how popular historical fiction is these days. Anyway, usually the one we hear about most is The Greatest Knight, the fictionalized life story of William the Marshal, one of medieval England’s most fascinating knights. I saw it at the library and just couldn’t resist despite my staggering TBR piles.
As a small child held hostage by King Stephen, William nearly loses his life when his father breaks his agreement with the king and switches allegiances. After all, William is only his fourth son. Stephen, not a strong king nor a hard man, chooses not to kill William and lets him go, but impresses on him the importance of loyalty and honor. At first, an adult William struggles to make himself known, but his extraordinary talent and aforementioned loyalty speak for him and he earns a place in the Plantagenet household, eventually training and serving Henry the Young King, eldest surviving son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. As his star rises, William’s life and fortunes are shaped by this most powerful family.
William the Marshal is a fascinating historical character and I think Elizabeth Chadwick has done him justice here. He certainly stuck with his loyalties in an age where many men switched allegiance to suit themselves; his father is a very good example, as are the sons of Henry II. As such, William truly stands out from the crowd, and he lived an extraordinary life in the shadow of five kings. As a result, in most places Chadwick doesn’t need to embellish the history, it’s a great tale as the chroniclers tell it. So for the most part, she sticks to it. She adds mainly a mistress, as we can assume that most well off knights had mistresses, and some story continuity, which works fairly well. You can still tell a little bit that she got her start in romance when William develops love interests, but this book is clearly beyond that and stands as a really good work of historical fiction. It isn’t the best I’ve ever read, but it is a worthy read.
I’m definitely looking forward to reading the sequel, The Scarlet Lion, which I conveniently enough have on my bookshelf. I would recommend this to other historical fiction lovers, it is a very solid and compelling work. Buy it on Amazon UK.
 On his fifth adventure, Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, have been separated. Laurence has been convicted of treason and is due to hang, while Temeraire is in a breeding ground to sire more Celestials for the English cause. Both are in despair, but as the situation grows dire with regards to France, they are once again called upon to serve their country – together – by fighting the French.I still really love the relationship between Temeraire and Laurence. I think it’s my favorite part of these books. They are so fond of each other, but their relationship feels very 18th century English to me; it’s a restrained affection, obviously there but subdued in the public eye. In any case, I like it and I think their devotion to each other raises their appeal as characters.
The last couple of Temeraire books were not as enchanting as the first two, especially the first one, and I considered giving up on the series; I got this one from the library, mostly because I saw it and I thought that it would be nice to find out what was happening without having to buy it. So I was pleased to find that some of the spark is back; this book has a greater emotional depth to it as Laurence is constantly struggling with his honor and what “the right thing” is. He’s disgraced and shamed and it’s a difficult time for him. In addition, his lost love Edith emerges again in this story, so it feels like his character is filling out as the series goes on. The return of the setting to Britain helps as well. Many of Temeraire and Laurence’s friends are back and can play a greater role in their lives, and besides that they seem to fit better in this setting. Perhaps that’s just my own affection for England speaking, but I do enjoy the story more here rather than the exotic locations. That’s unfortunate as I believe they’re moving once again in the next of the series.
I’m not sure I’d recommend starting out with the series; it’s certainly enchanting, but there is no sign of its ending and a few of the books are difficult to get through with no reward as yet. I think, however, that Novik is getting better as a writer and if you’ve read this far already, you might as well continue. Check it out on Amazon.
 I tried not to, but I had really high expectations of this book. I particularly enjoyed Nefertiti and everyone who got The Heretic Queen before me reported that it was even better. It’s very hard to tamp down excitement in that circumstance! So I waited with anticipation and when it finally came and I had finished my previous read, I read The Heretic Queen in less than 24 hours. It was just that good.
Nefertari has no family beyond her nurse, Merit. She is a royal princess from a family of heretics, even though her parents never worshipped Aten like her aunt and uncle. As such, the prejudice against her is immense, and outside of her friends Asha and Ramesses, Nefertari feels very alone. The public hates her for being Nefertiti’s niece. When Ramesses is crowned Pharaoh alongside his father and takes a wife, Nefertari realizes how she feels about him, and that she must contest the emerging political schemes against her in order to secure her place in the Egyptian world – by Ramesses’s side, queen of the kingdom.
I loved this book! Nefertari was a wonderful character and it was very easy to feel for her and be on her side throughout. She is intelligent, determined, honest, and resourceful, character traits that many of us can identify with. The political scene was complicated in some respects, especially regarding the past, but I wasn’t confused and they served to heighten the tension throughout the story. Nefertari’s relationships with her friends, her tutor, her nurse, and even her feelings towards the family she never knew are drawn clearly and genuinely.
Furthermore, the author’s research is clearly extensive. She slips in so much historical detail without ever dragging down the story. As I’m reading, I can envision the outfits, the wide expanses of desert, the ships, the court, and people’s faces, right down to their eyeliner, and I am very bad at visualizing when I’m reading. I feel that I haven’t just read a great work of historical fiction, but that I’ve actually learned something and I’m inspired to go out and read more about ancient Egypt. Michelle Moran has really brought this culture to life for me with her splendid historical novels.
I would definitely, definitely recommend this one. It takes two books for an author to hit my favorites list, and I can say that Michelle is without question on the list; this book surpassed my expectations and I am anxiously awaiting her third novel!
Finally, I am happy to announce that I have two signed hardcover copies to give away! To enter, leave a comment on this post first. For an additional entry, post about this giveaway on your blog and come back with a link. The contest will be open until Friday, November 7th and I’ll announce the winners the next day. The contest is open worldwide.
If you’re too impatient to try your luck, buy this book on Amazon.
 First of all, thank you very much for having me here! When you first asked me to write a guest post, I knew immediately what I wanted to talk about. History’s surprises. I don’t mean the small surprises an author uncovers during the lengthy process of researching for an historical novel, such as the fact that the Romans liked to eat a fish sauce called garum which was made from fermented fish. Ugh. No, I mean the large surprises which alter the way we think about an ancient civilization and humanity.
The Heretic Queen is the story of Nefertari and her transformation from an orphaned and unwanted princess to one of the most powerful queens of ancient Egypt. She married Ramesses II and possibly lived through the most famous exodus in history. I assumed that when I began my research I would discover that Ramesses was tall, dark and handsome (not unlike the drool-worthy Yule Brenner in The Ten Commandments). And I imagined that he would have been victorious in every battle, given his long reign of more than thirty years and his triumphant-sounding title, Ramesses the Great. But neither of these assumptions turned out to be true.
My first surprise came when I first visited the Hall of Mummies in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Contrary to every single media portrayal of Ramesses and every movie ever made, it turns out the Pharaoh was not tall, dark and handsome as I had expected, but tall, light and red-headed (which was just as fine, by me)! When his mummy was recovered in 1881, Egyptologists were able to determine that he had once stood five feet seven inches tall, had flaming red hair, and a distinctive nose that his sons would inherit. There were those who contended that his mummy had red hair because of burial dyes or henna, but French scientists laid these theories to rest after a microscopic analysis of the roots conclusively proved he was a red-head like Set, the Egyptian god of chaos. As I peered through the heavy glass which separated myself from the a man commonly referred to as the greatest Pharaoh of ancient Egypt, my pre-conceived notions of Ramesses II fell away. I knew that the oldest mummy ever discovered in Egypt had had red hair, but to see red hair on a mummy in person was something else entirely.
My second surprise came as I was attempting to piece together what kind of man Ramesses II had been. I assumed, given his lengthy reign, that he must have been a great warrior who was level-headed in battle and revered as a soldier. Pharaohs who were inept at waging war didn’t tend to have very lengthy reigns. There were always people on the horizon – Hyksos, Hittites, Mitanni – who wanted Egypt for themselves, not to mention internal enemies who would have loved to usurp the throne. But while researching Ramesses’s foreign policy, a very different man began to emerge. One who was young, rash, and sometimes foolish. His most famous battle—the Battle of Kadesh—ended not in victory, but in a humiliating truce after he charged into combat strategically unprepared and very nearly lost the entire kingdom of Egypt. In images from his temple in Abu Simbel, he can be seen racing into this war on his chariot, his horse’s reins tied around his waist as he smites the Hittites in what he depicted as a glorious triumph. Nefertari is believed to have accompanied him into this famous battle, along with one of his other wives. First, I had to ask myself, what sort of man brings his wives to war? Clearly, one who was completely confident of his own success. Secondly, I had to wonder what this battle said about Ramesses’s character.
Rather than being a methodical planner, Ramesses was clearly the type of Pharaoh who was swayed – at least on the battlefield – by his passions. However, his signing of a truce with the Hittites seemed significant to me for two reasons. One, it showed that he could be humble and accept a stalemate (whereas other Pharaohs might have tried to attack the Hittites the next season until a definitive conqueror was declared). And two, it showed that he could think outside the box. Ramesses’s Treaty of Kadesh is the earliest copy of a treaty that has ever been found. When archaeologists discovered the tablet it was written in both Egyptian and Akkadian. It details the terms of peace, extradition policies and mutual-aid clauses between Ramesses’s kingdom of Egypt and the powerful kingdom of Hatti. Today, the original treaty, written in cuneiform and discovered in Hattusas, is displayed in the United Nations building in New York to serve as a reminder of the rewards of diplomacy. For me, it also serves as a reminder that Ramesses was not just a young, rash warrior, but a shrewd politician.
There were other surprises as well; about the personal history of my narrator Nefertari, the Exodus, and even the Babylonian legends which bear a striking resemblance to Moses’s story in the Bible. Researching history always comes with revelations, and it’s one of the greatest rewards of being an historical fiction author. There’s nothing I like better than being surprised and having my preconceptions crumble, because if I’m surprised, it’s likely that the reader will be surprised as well.
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Thanks for that great post, Michelle! History loves to throw surprises at us no matter what period we’re studying.
Michelle Moran is the best-selling author of Nefertiti and The Heretic Queen. She is currently hard at work on her third novel, Cleopatra’s Daughter. Come back tomorrow for my review of The Heretic Queen and my giveaway of a signed copy! In the meantime, check it out on Amazon.
 Azincourt is the French spelling of Agincourt, known widely as a shocking loss for the French against the English in the Hundred Years’ War. Bernard Cornwell imagines the lead-up to the battle here focusing again on an archer, Nicholas Hook, who serves as our lens looking in on the wider struggle, ending with the monumental battle itself. We all know the ending, but Cornwell still manages to make it suspenseful as we never know who will live and who will die.
As usual, the battles are the best thing about Cornwell’s writing. He makes us feel like we’re there, or at least that we could have been there in a past life. He underscores the extraordinary importance of archers with their longbows, the single greatest advantage that the English had against the French here and during many other battles in this lengthy on-and-off war. I should also mention that the priests are corrupt and the good one is not as religious as you’d expect a priest to be, so another warning for those of us who are devout Christians and prefer not to have their reading slander their religion unfairly.
Cornwell’s third person narration is a bit different from his first person fare, most of what I’ve been reading lately. It feels colder and it’s much harder to get into the characters’ heads. As such, Hook and Melisande remain very distant from the reader throughout the novel. Hook is a bit humbler than Cornwell’s normal male heroes, but of course he is still the best. In all, this feels very much like the Grail Quest trilogy, and as I believe Hook is related to Thomas of Hookton, that’s not entirely a surprise. Still, I think I prefer his first person narrators, arrogant and similar as they all are. The books feel more human with a fully fleshed out narrator.
I enjoyed it, but I’d definitely recommend his Arthurian trilogy or Saxon Chronicles first. I feel this one may only be for fans of Cornwell or those of us who like to read about the more violent side of the Middle Ages. Pre-order this book on Amazon.
 Back in June, I read and really enjoyed The Firemaster’s Mistress. I’d picked it up in the UK about a year in advance of the US release, which was last month. In honor of the book’s arrival in the States, Christie agreed to answer some of the burning questions I had about the book. Be forewarned, question number four is a very big spoiler, although I bet it will answer one of your questions once you’ve finished. The rest of the interview is perfectly safe!
1. First of all, it’s clear that a lot of research went into The Firemaster’s Mistress. Would you mind telling us a little bit about how you went about learning so much about James I’s England?
ANSWER. How long have I got to answer this one? It’s something I often talk about at literary festivals and Reading Groups. Yes, I do a lot of research, and love it. I feel responsible for telling my readers the historical truth, as far as it can be known. But, secretly, I also feel that research gives me permission to be nosy, to go behind the scenes in fascinating places, and to ask impertinent questions that I’d be far too shy to ask otherwise. And it introduces me to amazing, generous people I’d never otherwise know.
I try to create a vivid, detailed film that I can run in my head, and describe, to give readers a feeling of what it was really like to be there. To build this film, I read research books written by historians and look at old documents from the period, like the two signed confessions of Guy Fawkes. I visit the places my characters would have known, to try to imagine what their eyes might have seen. I try on the clothes to learn what they feel like – and how they shape behaviour. (Try sitting down in a stiffened bodice and iron-hooped farthingale.) I go to museums to study the details of daily life – what their forks, drinking glasses, chamber pots, musical instruments, and nightclothes looked like. I learn what layers of wool and straw were under them when they slept, and I imagine the fleas that lived there. I read what my characters might have read. I’ve tried living for a few days without electric light, and, as a result, now understand all those slightly-implausible mistaken identities you find in Shakespeare’s plays. And I’ve used this lack of light in the plot of FIREMASTER’S MISTRESS.
Also, in my previous life in theatre, I spent four years working with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford and in London, as resident choreographer and assistant director. All day, every day, I heard Shakespeare’s English being spoken, while I watched and helped actors explore ways to inhabit that world – there’s no way to improve on that as background for writing about the period.
If it’s still up on the Web, I have an article posted on the English TV Channel Four History Website, which goes into greater detail about how I researched the Gunpowder Plot, and how that unrolling detective story influenced my plot, including why I chose my writer of the anonymous Monteagle letter.
2. Do you think that an insider really revealed the Gunpowder Plot of 1605?
ANSWER. Yes. But no one can agree who it was. This uncertainty is a perfect example of one of the ‘cracks’ in known history into which I try to imagine my fictional stories.
3. Why did you choose to write about this time period in England?
ANSWER. By chance, at first. I fell in love with the craziness of a subject (the Tulip Madness and wild stock-market type dealing in flower bulbs, as if they were pork bellies or oil) which turned into my first 17th c. novel, THE LADY TREE. Then I fell in love with the period. The people feel more familiar to me than those of either the medieval or Victorian periods. They’re vigorous, mercantile, culturally diverse and had their own version of football louts and dot.com millionaires. I think that they would recognise us too, once they got past wondering why everyone seemed to beep, had pockets that played snatches of music, and walked around with one hand against their cheeks, talking to themselves.
Reality comes into it too. Publishers want a book a year, if possible. Even taking longer to write one, you don’t have time to keep learning new periods in the same detail.
And see what I said above about my time with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The period was already in my blood.
4. This is a spoiler question, but I must know: Why did you choose to have Kate end up with Boomer and not Francis?
ANSWER. Controversy! I love it! Readers are split about 50-50 over which man Kate should have married, and feel equally passionately about it. She makes a tough choice between different types of love, and readers seem to respond according to where they are in their own lives. For me, Francis will always be the delightful sexy hero you fall madly in love with, but he’s also a rolling stone. And a little self-centred. In real life, happily-ever-after, he would hurt Kate again. He’s not husband material for a woman like her who has been badly damaged by her life (including by him!) and needs for her heart and soul to heal. It may also be partly that Boomer looks a bit like my tall, sexy, silver-haired husband, but he LISTENS to her in a way that Francis never does. He’s only 48, and still in his male prime. He’s protective and masterful in a nice way, kind, and treats Kate as an intelligent equal. He’s happy for her to be her slightly unusual self. He’s a little dangerous, but not to her. What’s not to love? Anyway, who could resist a gift like Caledonian Meg? (But don’t worry. Francis meets his very-satisfactory match in the next book, THE PRINCIPESSA.)
5. What is your writing process like? Do you plan ahead, or do you allow the characters to go where they will?
ANSWER. This is not an answer for people who want things clear cut. I know where I’m starting. I have an idea of where I want to end up, though this may change over the nine months or so that it takes to get to a first draft. I sketch out a very rough road map of my intended journey. Then I do a lot of what I call ‘improvisation’ in the theatrical sense, putting the characters I’ve chosen into the situations I think they’ll find themselves in and finding out what they do. For example, I didn’t know which man Kate would choose until I got her to Powder Mote and put the three of them together. I’m willing to bin a great many words before I settle. My desk sees the ruthless murder of possibilities and lots of re-cycled paper!
I hate doing detailed synopses before starting a commission because I’ve had no time to explore with my characters. And the writing can then feel like paint-by-numbers. Without the ‘juice’. (I was delighted to learn that Stephen King feels the same way.)
On the other hand, you can never let your characters wander completely at will for long, or they can derail the book. Like actors, who have to make themselves heard in the back row even when whispering into someone’s ear, I have to keep a balance between free imagining and craft. I swing all the time between meditative dreaming and worrying about building tension.
Every character or world has its own logic. The sense of truth, even in fantasy, grows from following those internal rules. If I find myself headed in the wrong direction, I have to go back and redefine the rules that took me there. The writer is in charge!
6. Finally, do you read historical fiction yourself? Do you have any favorite authors or books of any genre that you’d like to share with us?
ANSWER. YES! And thrillers, and literary novels, and travel books, and books on magic, folklore and mythology, and poetry, and backs of cereal boxes… I could start giving lists of names (including Anya Seton, Rose Tremain, Philipa Gregory, James Lee Burke…) but it might be quickest for people to check the ‘Extra’ I’ve just written posted on my website (www. christiedickason.com). It answers this question directly and is called ‘The Ones That Got me Started’.
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Thanks so much for taking the time out to answer my questions, Christie! For those of you who don’t have this book yet and love historical fiction, I recommend you check it out on Amazon.
 *If you don’t know the history, this review does contain spoilers*
Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine lead a very hectic life. Between them, they control England and most of France, and in an age of very slow travel, they struggle in many ways, particularly where their children are concerned. Nearly everyone knows of the chaos that these four sons wreaked on the Angevin Empire; they embroiled it in warfare, usually against their father, and wound up losing much of it to the French king, Philip Augustus. In Devil’s Brood, Sharon Kay Penman elucidates the very human struggle of sons against father, husband against wife, and country against country as all control slips out of Henry II’s fingers, bit by bit.
I unequivocally love Sharon Kay Penman. She is the origin of my over-the-top love for everything Richard III and I have eagerly consumed all of her previous historical novels. This book is no exception. Her previous work in this trilogy, Time and Chance, was probably her weakest effort, but I still loved it, and I loved this one more. She allows us to immerse ourselves in a world that is distinctly not our own, but allows us to relate to historical characters that, after all, were just people.
The book does, at times, move slowly. At its length, that is virtually a given. On the other hand, though, this isn’t an action oriented tale. It’s about the people involved as Penman fleshes out historical personas and makes us feel for them as if they’d walked out of the page and into our lives. The struggle between Henry II and his sons could happen to anyone; how many of us know fathers (or mothers) who are hard-headed, children who are determined to rebel and can’t see where they are wrong? What happens when you place that child on the world’s stage with resources at his disposal? English history happens as sons turns against their father.
As always, my favorite character is Eleanor of Aquitaine. She’s fascinating in both history and fiction and Penman certainly gives her what I believe is her due. The other characters are also well developed and fascinating, an exercise in what-might-have-been like all medieval historical fiction, but Eleanor steals the show. Some old friends return, including Penman’s rare fully fictional main characters, Ranulf and his wife Rhiannon. Like I said before, this is definitely a book about characters. Wars and rebellions go on constantly, but it’s all about them and their reactions to those events. There are heart-breaking moments and there are joyful moments for these characters and it’s easy to get sucked in and feel how they feel.
It’s not perfect. It does move slowly and Penman has an odd tendency to toss in “certes” and other medieval-esque words that aren’t entirely necessary. In real life, these people were speaking Norman French usually, so it doesn’t work for me. And she does romanticize history, but she never does it in a way that makes it inaccurate; just makes you feel for people you wouldn’t have otherwise liked.
Would I recommend this? Most definitely. Not if you’re looking for a quick read, but if you want to immerse yourself in a terrific historical novel, live and breathe the Middle Ages as best we’re able, you should be looking for Sharon Kay Penman. Buy this book on Amazon.
 Who was Jack the Ripper? History may never tell us, but in the meantime, James Reese has vividly imagined what might have been. Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, was acquainted with the one of the suspects, Francis Tumblety, and from these beginnings, Reese has spun a suspenseful tale that follows the dark career of Tumblety from its beginning to its gristly end.
Two words of caution before you go out and read this book. First off, it is written in Stoker’s style. It’s also slow going to start because not only do you have to get in Victorian mode, you also have to wonder what’s going on for a while until the scary bit starts up. And never is it purely terrifying, but it’s very, very creepy.
But is it worth those fifty pages of adjustment? Yes! I’m going to go ahead and say that Reese is very talented. First of all, he must have really studied Dracula to emulate Stoker’s writing so well. It’s almost eerie how this has the feel of a Victorian novel. Secondly, he follows the historical record very closely and somehow manages to weave in horror elements that are “might have beens”. And thirdly, he evokes these ritualistic scenes which also feel straight out of a Victorian imagination, particularly the fascination with Egyptology. Using Egypt and the Egyptian gods and demons makes perfect sense. (Yes, 19th century fiction is my favorite period to study, how did you guess?) He also ties in a lot of Stoker’s fictional experiences with the author’s inspiration for Dracula in a way that links the two books, making me appreciate this one more since I love Dracula so much.
So, not only did I enjoy this book, creeped out as I was (I had to stop reading last night and finish it this morning, convinced I was going to hear my last name whispered like “Sto-ker”), but I feel like I learned a lot about Bram Stoker, Thomas Henry Hall Caine, the Wildes, and the Jack the Ripper investigation, far more than I knew already. And Reese even sticks in one of my favorites, an author’s note explaining what he did and did not invent and even citing his sources. So if I want to go out and learn more, there’s a handy list waiting for me. I love when authors do this, and I was surprised by how much was actual fact.
I’d recommend this especially to readers of historical fiction, people interested in the 19th century, or anyone who enjoyed Dracula. This book will be released tomorrow. Buy it on Amazon.
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