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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

Deborah Harkness

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. Week 1: More Than 500 Pages

* Week 1: Introduction
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Jan 27, 2012 Cobwebs-Iced-Across-SpaceTime rated it it was amazing

Shelves: march-2012-reads, june-2012-reads, second-time-around

"A Discovery of Witches" is a complex and multi-layered novel-one could call it a work of paranormal suspense-which is only the first of a series. Delving into British University culture (Oxford), witches, vampires, daemons, history of alchemy, library archivism, and much much more, this novel is a romp across Britain (16th century to present) and New England (17th century Salem to present-day upstate New York), set in a reality only slightly different from ours: a world in which three types of ...more

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Nov 03, 2019 Eslem rated it liked it · review of another edition

Nadiren yaşanan bir olay ama... dizisi... kitabından daha güzeldi. Vampir beyimizi dizide Matthew Goode oynamasaydı karakterden hiç etkilenmezdim herhalde çünkü sürekli gergin ve sinirli oluşu aşırı rahatsız etti. Bin küsur yıllık vampirsin azıcık sal be kardeşimm 🤙

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Jul 19, 2012 Brittany rated it it was amazing

Shelves: eclectic, kaytee-press

Well....going to have to add another book to my to read list! I have to know what happens next! I could not put this book down once I got to about page 200. I forgot how much I loved reading about vampires and add daemons and witches to the mix! Whew! I hope that Diana is a little more careful in the next book and not so reckless. I was not very fond of Matthew's mother at first but I grew to like her nearer to the end of the book. I thought that the Bishop house was so neat when it kept adding ...more

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Nov 25, 2013 Sara rated it really liked it

Shelves: trilogies, 2016-reads

I owned A Discovery of Witches for 4 years before I started it, mostly because I didn't want to commit to starting a trilogy. I loved it for the most part. Professor/witch on sabattical at Oxford studying the history of alchemy discovers lost magical text. Meets vampire. Falls in love with vampire. Witch's life is threatened by discovery of said magical text and what it means for the underground world of magical creatures. I enjoyed the book and will certainly read on in the series. I liked Hark ...more

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Sep 02, 2014 Stephanie rated it did not like it

Shelves: fantasy-scifi

I really wanted to like this book. But 100 pages in, I just have to admit that I loathe the main characters enough to stop reading. The writing is fine, if overly descriptive (I don't care to read multiple pages in just the first few chapters about yoga and rowing and running and drinking tea) and I did like some of the major themes—witches, vampires, daemons, libraries, a mysterious book, alchemy. All great stuff.

But Diana and Matthew, oh my god! Diana's naivete towards the paranormal and her s ...more

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