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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

Deborah Harkness

Why we're reading this: Dangerous smart and sexy vampire who is also an Oxford professor.
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Jan 08, 2012 Lisa Kay rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: setting-england, m-audio-cd-to-ipod-touch, genre-mystery-subplot, challenge-chunkster, reviewed-by-me, 2012-in-2012-group-challenge, m-kindle, zzcover-blue, character-multi-ethnic-heritage, amazing-secondary-characters

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★★★★★ (This is a review of the audiobook.) I’ll be honest and say it took me several attempts at this one. After failing three times, I just put the audiobook in the car; I figured there I would be a captive audience. I was really beginning to wonder how this book ever received GoodReads’ Romance of the Year Award. However, I ended up loving it and wanting to go out to do my errands just to listen to the story. Eventually, I had my iPod in my ears while I did my grocery shopping. It ...more

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Jul 21, 2014 ☘KathyD☘ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: genre-romance-series, genre-contemporary, genre-romance, book-1st-in-series, audio-audible, book-kindle, genre-young-adult, genre-paranormal, zz-2015, genre-suspense

Wow! That about covers it! What an amazing story, wound around oodles of history! I wasn't sure I was going to love this story, but I was wrong! I can not wait to dive in the next book! ...more

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Dec 05, 2016 Kirsty rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I don't even know where to start with this book. It was massive and rather intimidating.
It's been recommended to me a few times and I finally got around to reading it.

I wasn't impressed with the beginning of the book, it took me quite a few chapters to get into the book and start to care about the characters. I felt it was quite repetitive at the start, there's only so much reading and researching at the Bodleian Library I can read about.

I liked that the author had obviously research the scie ...more

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Jul 20, 2011 Delitealex rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own, vampire, witches, favorites, fantasy

This book was nothing like I expected. The writing was so descriptive. I loved the parts about Diana's alchemical research and Matthew's experiments. Also the descriptions of each creature were interesting. I loved the characters and can't wait to learn more about them. The mystery of the manuscript and the interactions between the creatures really kept me interested and I loved the chemistry between Diana and Matthew. I'm definitely continuing on to the next book. ...more

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Sep 23, 2012 Nancy Gross rated it it was amazing

This book has a wonderful rich storyline and well developed characters. The plot keeps getting more interesting and yet is easy to follow. Wonderful emotionally and intellectually connected relationships and compelling story.

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