This book was great! I loved every moment of it – from the mentor relationship between student and teacher (that few people understand), the characters, their adventures, and the history that Kostova brings into the novel. I never wanted to put it down and I was sad when it came to an end. The book draws you in and you want to rush through it to find out what will happen next. However, when you finish it you wish that you had prolonged your reading of it so that you could still be with the characters.