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AUTHOR Harkness, Deborah
TITLE: Shadow of Night
DATE READ 02/08/2018
RATING 4/B
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2012/Penguin/20 CD's
SERIES/STAND-ALONE #2 in All Souls Trilogy
CHARACTERS Diana Bishop/witch Matthew Clairmont/vampire
TIME/PLACE: Europe Elizabethan London mostly
COMMENTS Diana and Matthew travel back in time in order to move forward in their relationship and give Diana an education in her many untapped skills as a witch.
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TITLE: Shadow of Night
DATE READ 02/08/2018
RATING 4/B
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2012/Penguin/20 CD's
SERIES/STAND-ALONE #2 in All Souls Trilogy
CHARACTERS Diana Bishop/witch Matthew Clairmont/vampire
TIME/PLACE: Europe Elizabethan London mostly
COMMENTS Diana and Matthew travel back in time in order to move forward in their relationship and give Diana an education in her many untapped skills as a witch.
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• The narrator was excellent and I that contributed to my enjoyment of the book. The book needed an excellent narrator as it was 24 hours long.
• I would call this a literary vampire/witch/demon story – enjoy learning about their cultures and their fight for power over the centuries
• There is a strong romantic element to the book and how others and their family react gives it a different feel as there is action but a lot of it is strategic and political actions
• There are enough suspenseful momen ...more
• I would call this a literary vampire/witch/demon story – enjoy learning about their cultures and their fight for power over the centuries
• There is a strong romantic element to the book and how others and their family react gives it a different feel as there is action but a lot of it is strategic and political actions
• There are enough suspenseful momen ...more
Aug 14, 2012
Lisa Rosen
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I was mildly disappointed in this, given how much I loved the first book in the series. This one felt like too much of a history lesson (I love a good history lesson, but there's a limit). It bogged down the tension so much that I found myself not picking it up for days at a time. It probably took me three weeks to get around to finishing it (I read the first one in a weekend, then immediately re-read it, which I NEVER do). Admittedly, we moved smack in the middle of those 3 weeks, but even in t
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I gave the trilogy a try after watching the tv show for the first book, and I wonder if part of why I didn't enjoy this book as much was the missing tv component. I find the beginning of her books to drag on, but it moved faster once a got about a third of the way through.
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Ugggghhhhhhh why.
Sep 14, 2012
Julie
marked it as just-didn-t-finish
Sep 29, 2012
Isabel
marked it as to-read
Aug 15, 2013
Dana Arbelaez
marked it as to-read
Oct 16, 2013
Erin (NY)
marked it as to-read
Oct 22, 2013
Doina
marked it as to-read
