By: Deborah Harkness
FOUR out of FIVE stars
my thoughts:
So this is the second book in the All Souls Trilogy. The first book is A Discovery of Witches. So picking up from there... they travel time. SPOILER! They make it.
The drama begins from there though because Matthew is in this time and only one Matthew can exist at one time. There are a ton of new characters that come and go in the book, not all of them stick around. Think about it though... how would they they are in the past.
Difficult part in this book was all the little historical things going on that were brought up. Matthew in this time era was well... busy. There were so many little stories that it did at times make the book as a whole loose it's path. The perk to that too is that one of the characters actually says that in the book that they had lost sight as to why they were there. DING!
There is a little back and forth as in future to past. That was super easy to follow though. I mean they are very distinct time eras. Beyond that though Harkness did a beautiful job bringing the past to life. It was soo easy to get lost in the past.
Great read. I am waiting as patiently as best I can for the last book.
the run down:
Historian Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, and long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont have broken the laws dividing creatures. When Diana discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library,she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to Matthew. Now the fragile coexistence of witches, daemons, vampires and humans is dangerously threatened.
Seeking safety, Diana and Matthew travel back in time to London, 1590. But they soon realise that the past may not provide a haven. Reclaiming his former identity as poet and spy for Queen Elizabeth, the vampire falls back in with a group of radicals known as the School of Night. Many are unruly daemons, the creative minds of the age, including playwright Christopher Marlowe and mathematician Thomas Harriot.
Together Matthew and Diana scour Tudor London for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782, and search for the witch who will teach Diana how to control her remarkable powers...
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