I bought this book after much media hype - in fact, I pre-ordered it. Touted to be the next Da Vinci Code, the book promises to be a compelling search for Dracula himself. It was more like a historic travelogue about the Eastern Bloc. The research must have been painstaking, but the final product - this book - has been categorized wrong. It should have been categorized under Ancient/Historic Eastern Europe. The Count, in this book, was reduced to being a mere portrait, a collector of books in search of a librarian!People who are thinking of buying this book as an equal to The Da Vinci Code, please don't. If you are a historian or a history student or even an architecture major, buy it - not otherwise.Sorry, Ms Kostova, but the media hype around your book was completely misplaced.