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Diana Bishop is studying alchemy at Oxford when the appearance of an unexpected manuscript starts a whole mess of trouble. Most significantly, it leads to her path crossing with the mysterious Matthew Claremont, a well-known scholar in his own right. But Diana and Matthew are no mere humans -- she is a witch who refuses to use her magic unless absolutely necessary, and he is a vampire in search of their origins and the answer to why they may all soon be extinct. Their eventual partnership is eno
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It's a little romance-novelish in spots, but the history and the magic were mostly enough to overcome that. I'm looking forward to the next book in the trilogy, even so.
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4-1/2 stars. I really enjoyed the story and the characters and imagining a world populated with witches and vampires and daemons. Can't wait to read the second book! ...more
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it was amazing
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