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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

A Discovery Of Witches by Deborah Harkness



Read September 2018.

This is book one in The All Souls Trilogy.
The concept of this book is great. A powerful witch called Diana Bishop turns against her heritage to pursue an academic career, until one day she uncovers a bewitched book that has been hidden for centuries.
Now other witches, demons and vampires want the book and Diana must reconcile herself with her witch heritage and learn to control her powers, all while falling into forbidden love with a vampire.

Sounds promising, right?
However, I really struggled to get through this book. Diana is so insipid and annoying - she spends so much time denying her powers, when she really needs to be working on them for the battles ahead. In addition, the forbidden vampire, Matthew Clairmont, is so over-protective that he becomes very irritating after a while.

This could have been great, but I really did not enjoy it. I am not sure if I will ever get around to reading the other parts of the trilogy.

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