I'm very hard-pressed to decide which one I liked better: the story of Byzantium itself or the way Mr. Norwich told it. I have to confess, this was my second try at the trilogy but I'm positive that I'll read it again and again.
I'm a bit ashamed to admit that up until now I knew next to nothing of Byzantium besides the rudimentary basics, and I cannot tell how many ways this trilogy widened my horizon and deepened my knowledge of the world. Mr. Norwich's books read like very rich and at times almost incredibly complicated but utterly spellbinding mysteries. The final chapters of the final book blew me away. The fall... I was and still am heartbroken. What a story! What a storyteller!