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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

Deborah Harkness

Start date: April 1, 2011

Finish date: April 30, 2011

Why we're reading this: This book won the Paranormal/Urban Fantasy Book of the Month vote.
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Jul 23, 2011 Marla rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal, historical-fiction, zz-team-2013-challenge-wild-blue-d, girl-power, magic, adult, demons, lgbt, chick-lit, book-about-books

4.5 stars. Long book, but easy, interesting read. Explores a world where witches, vampires and daemons walk mostly unnoticed among humans. A sweet and funny story of a romance between an ancient French vampire and a stubborn American witch.

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* Diana Bishop trying to run from her nature and magic toward history and knowledge, daughter of witch Rebecca Bishop and wizard Stephen Proctor.
* Matthew Clairmont sounds intriguing, his protectiveness, his vast knowledge, his success as a scientist
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Oct 04, 2011 Vickie rated it really liked it

Shelves: nook, listened-to

I liked listening to this tale with a different look at witches, vampires and demons. This is a re-listen and 8 years can delete a lot of memory of a storyline in some cases. This is one of those. I wanted to re-read or re-listen after watching some episodes of the very good television series that is airing. A really good job of casting and keeping to the book's storyline.
This is a good book, not a great one, but definitely good. I like most of the characters and the premise. A book with prejud ...more

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Feb 07, 2021 Joyce rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy

The first book of 2021 that I found enjoyable. It took me a bit to get into it but once Diana and Matthew go to New York I found the tale a complete delight. We (my husband and I) also thoroughly enjoyed watching the show on TV. I think I really need fantasy or mystery to handle this pandemic. This was great fun.

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Nov 29, 2011 Angie Taylor rated it it was amazing

I gave this book 5 stars, but I think I would give it 4 1/2 if I could. Usually when a book is amazing, I agree with everthing in it, and I didn't with this one. Having said that, it was still a pretty fantastic story. It reminded me quite a bit of Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series in its details, introductions of characters, and plot twists, and then of course there is the insanely intense love story similarities. At the same time, this book will definitle appeal to Twilight fans, but with a ...more

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