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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.
[close] This book won the Paranormal/Urban Fantasy Book of the Month vote.

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Sep 05, 2012 Carrie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: tower-team, paranormal-romance, vampire, romance, time-travel, parnormal, supernatural, magic, witches, wizards

So this book was great. When I first started it felt a little slow, but I must confess when I started reading I was rather tried so that might have played a slight role in the slowness of the book. Hence the 4 stars rather then 5.

I found the the information about alchemy fascinating, the whole story is so interesting. The descriptions of everything were perfect (to me at least). I can not wait to find out what happens next. I'm a excited and a little scared, not because the book is scary, I'm s ...more

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Jul 26, 2012 Logan rated it really liked it

Shelves: own-bought-paper, paranormal, 2013-books-read

The complexity of the world and beautiful, rich writing give this 5 star appeal, but the plot lost major momentum in the last third of the book and I nearly didn't finish it. Glad I did, and am looking forward to the next book. ...more

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Apr 16, 2013 Kayleen rated it really liked it

Shelves: series, paranormal-cozy

I was dismayed there was no ending. This really is the first third of the story. Standing alone it feels incomplete.
I got very involved with the characters. I need to see how it progresses.

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Aug 02, 2013 Suchprettycolors rated it liked it

I thought it was a little bit sappy. And found parts of it to be very boring. It was fine, seems like lots of people really like it. Just not quite right for me.

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Jan 06, 2015 Hasien rated it liked it

I thoroughly enjoyed the audible version of this story.

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Nov 03, 2019 Soelo rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio, ebook, series, series2010s, tv-watched

This a great book to read in the fall. The settings of Oxford, France, and upstate New York are very autumnal. The mythology is interesting enough without being too complex. Diana and Matthew are compelling as main characters and the supporting cast is emphatic and stubborn.

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