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Hello, Ludmila! I love 'Anatomy of ilussions' and I'm happy that in the Bulgarian prose has finally apperared a fresh presence!

Veliana

I am most impressed by the seriousness taken when writing the book. I admire the professionalism. By the moment I haven’t met the topic about the Orphey or the so called ‘Meanders’. Nevertheless, I never doubted the theses exposed in the book. They are always supported by serious arguments that sound logically, numerous pictures (both printed in the book and on the website mastileniat-labirint.com). The whole research deserves admiration. I’m a believing Christian but I also like such investigations. I know that the history written in the Bible is exaggerated, imagined or borrowed but I don’t believe in history, I believe in personality. As someone from the book told – religion is not about knowledge, it’s about faith.

The second thing I liked very much was the characters. Vera is a vigorous one. She is not fearless like Lara Craft, neither omniscient like Robert Langdon. She has doubts, pains, memories, ambitions. She has qualities that every reader could find in himself/herself – even her selfish intentions to stage the archeological discovery of the tile, at the end. Reading the book, I found myself thinking frequently – ‘it is easy to find a secret sign, when you are looking for it’ – faces in the flames, shapes in the clouds, but a few lines below Vera felt the same doubts and in the picture on the website it could be clearly seen that they were actually there.

And third – the book definitely tickles my self – confidence. I’m sure that each reader will become at least little bit more proud because of the fact that it was here where first signs of civilization were found. It’s a pity that nowadays the Balkans can’t make other nations believe that the cradle of the civilization was here.

The book is just great. Both topics and truths revealed are great. I can’t wait for the sequel – ‘Dante’s stolen ring’.

Regards, Daniel Bunardziev


Congratulations on the great book! You literary heated my heart! All the stories that have been just told through the generations (as my grandmother told wonderful stories about the Balkan) finally have their chance to immerge on the surface. My friends and I have always been asking ourselves why Bulgarian authors don’t create a historical novel which could be able to make our nation be proud of it. And that finally happened. And I, as an amateur specialist in Thracians, have always put the unthinkable together in my mind (I was seeing the Thracian Heros instead of the Madarian Rider), thinking that I was only led by my patriotism and I’ve asked myself whether all those researches on the Bulgarian lands were just a mirage, if the world didn’t notice them, if Nikolai Ovcarov, Daniela Agre, Georgi Kitov were just local celebrities… but finally someone came out to show to all that were silent till now that we are going to fight for our right to claim that we were the First ones. That the first civilization wasn’t born in Mesopotamia, near Nile or in Athens. It was born exactly here – on Bulgarian land. Thank you for that and wish you success! Make us be proud!!!

Teodora Nedyalkova