Part one of term paper
My book I reviewed was The Lost, by Jonathan Aycliffe. The main setting for this book is modern day Romania. As a naive Englishman, Michael Feraru travels to a remote, forbidding castle in the mountains of Transylvania and then fleshes it out with appealing characters and a different plot. Michael leaves his beloved girlfriend behind at hom ...

Part two of term paper
... to them from other people. The evil beings in The Lost are not vampires, but strigoi, free-floating shades of an ancient family of lords. They die and don't decay. The other characters Aycliffe has in the book start out having an attractive sense of humor but, humor fades as the creepy crawlies take over. A prep-school teacher in Cambridge, Michael Feraru, inherits Castle Vliacu, his family's fortress in the Transylvanian Alps and hopes to turn it into an orphanage for Romanian children. Delightfu ...