Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose has no choice but to flee London and its memories. She journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe's best schools of forensic medicine...and to another notorious killer, Vlad the Impaler, whose thirst for blood became legend. But her life's dream is soon tainted by blood-soaked discoveries in the halls of the school's forbidding castle, and Audrey Rose is compelled to investigate the strangely familiar murders. What she finds brings all her terrifying fears to life once again.
I absolutely adored this book, however, the journey to the revelation felt too insane for me. Sure, there were rooms where people were killed, some full of bats, spiders, that made sense. However, the journey to the room that gets filled with water, the insane journey to get out of it, and be dumped somewhere, without any good reason? That just seemed too much for me. I am not sure if building something like that was realistic for it’s time – although that was not even really a problem. It seemed out of place and unnecessary for the plot of the story. Come on, we already knew Audrey Rose and Thomas would not die.
Besides that part, I adored the Romanian culture, folklore, and history that is added in this book. As far as I could find from native Romanians who reviewed this book, there were no errors when their language was used, which is always something I am scared about when an author uses a language that they do not speak.
