a discovery of witches by deborah harkness

Every time Matthew touches Diana, or even looks at her, she feels an icy chill. Matthew is constantly keeping secrets from Diana, usually involving information that is sort of crucial for her to know. I’m not even annoyed about all the normal tropey vampire stuff that Matthew does – things like struggling to control his bloodlust and being extremely controlling – because I’m too annoyed about them not having any believable chemistry whatsoever. No, in a completely boring, this love story is not believable on any planet kind of way. And not in a sexy, vampire, erotic blood-sucking way. Now, I know you guys are all here for the romance, so I’ll start there. There are two main things that made this book terrible: the copious details, and the romance. This book was a slog, so I guess the mystery will remain mysterious. If a story is gripping, this is not a deal-breaker for me, but man. There is no resolution to any of the mystery, by the way, so if you want that, you’ll have to read all three books. Something about the genetics of magic creatures? And then they get attacked and travel around and fall in love. And then they start to try to figure out what’s going on together. But really, we care about Matthew here.ĭiana and Matthew start hanging out, even though witches and vampires DO NOT hang out. Plus some daemons, and some mean witches. While doing some research at the Bodleian in Oxford, she gets out a book on alchemy, as one does.īut this book has been lost for years, and a bunch of other creatures want it, including one vampire named Matthew. She studies the history of science, with a special focus on alchemy. The basic plot is that Diana is a witch (it’s a genetic thing, witches are actually slightly separate species from humans), but she suppresses her magic and just goes about being a historian.

If anything, it got more annoying, but I had invested so much time into the darn thing that I kept going.

Maybe it just starts awkwardly and then gets better.” And then I started reading it, and was like: “Well. Plus there’s some paranormal romance! So I requested it from the library, and then waited months and months for it to be my turn. It sounded intriguing, because I love nerdy nerds doing academic things, especially if they’re in the humanities ( Possession by A.S. I heard about this book last fall, when the TV show started. Overall: I finished this only through sheer stubbornness Plot: Paranormal romance meets The DaVinci Code meets magic coming of age novel where a witch learns to control her powers Heat Factor: Heavy petting occurs, but I’m not convinced it’s sexy

A discovery of witches by deborah harkness