A Discovery of Witches
By: Deborah Harkness
FOUR out of FIVE stars
my thoughts:
Fun read. I took a break from the whole witches, vampire realm for a while. I'm so glad that this was the book that I choice to read on the whole 'fantasy' world again. So you have this witch, lets call her Diana. She happens to be a Bishop. The Bishop family is one of the strongest most well known witch families. Anywho. Diana growing up made the desicion not to be in touch with the magical side. She went on to become a great scholar. As she is out being all smart she happens upon a book. Not just any book a book that strikes her deepest most covered up witching side of her. The discovery of said book brings witches, vampires and deamons out of the woodwork.
Of course it's forbidden for the witch and the vampire to fall in love and of course they do. What unfolds though is what this forbidden love has to go through. The trust that is put into one another even though it's something that is just not EVER done. Until now.
the run down:
Deep inthe stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittinglycalls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research.Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing todo with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes thebook to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring,and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library.Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is theonly creature who can break its spell.
Debutnovelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equalparts history and magic, romance and suspense. Diana is a bold heroine whomeets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms upto him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos.This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but itis as contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving ofhistorical realism.
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