Fresh Friday Reads: witches and vampires
HAPPY FRIDAY!!! Oh man, I’m glad it is finally here. These last few weeks have been busy. I’m ready to schedule more vacation days from the day job just to catch up on my writing business. 
Any who. Last week I read an awesome book. It’s one that I’ve been looking at for a while and put off because it is very long. I finally broke down and got the audio book. The listening length is a little over 24 hours. Yeah, I said it was a long book.
A Discovery of Witches
By Deborah Harkness
The first book in the All Souls Trilogy. I LOVED it!! It’s richly written and full of history and science. And this one is only the beginning of Diana and Matthew’s journey. I highly recommend it.
Blurb
When historian Diana Bishop opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford’s Bodleian Library it represents an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordinary life. Though descended from a long line of witches, she is determined to remain untouched by her family’s legacy. She banishes the manuscript to the stacks, but Diana finds it impossible to hold the world of magic at bay any longer.
For witches are not the only otherworldly creatures living alongside humans. There are also creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires who become interested in the witch’s discovery. They believe that the manuscript contains important clues about the past and the future, and want to know how Diana Bishop has been able to get her hands on the elusive volume.
Chief among the creatures who gather around Diana is vampire Matthew Clairmont, a geneticist with a passion for Darwin. Together, Diana and Matthew embark on a journey to understand the manuscript’s secrets. But the relationship that develops between the ages-old vampire and the spellbound witch threatens to unravel the fragile peace that has long existed between creatures and humans—and will certainly transform Diana’s world as well.
What are you reading? Anything new, interesting, and sexy?
