Deborah Harkness
Hardcover | Pages: 579 pages Rating: 4 | 340700 Users | 33397 Reviews
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| Original Title: | A Discovery of Witches |
| ISBN: | 0670022411 (ISBN13: 9780670022410) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://deborahharkness.com/all-souls-world-home/the-all-souls-world-books/ |
| Series: | All Souls Trilogy #1 |
| Characters: | Sarah Bishop, Sean Ryder, Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont, Emily Mather, Miriam Shephard, Hamish Osborne, Marcus Whitmore, Ysabeau de Clermont, Baldwin de Clairmont, Elias Ashmole, Peter Knox, Stephen Proctor, Rebecca Bishop, Juliette Durand, Agatha Wilson, Nathaniel Wilson, Gillian Chamberlain, Marthe (Vampire), Chris Roberts |
| Setting: | Oxford, England,2009(United Kingdom) Saint Lucien,2009(France) Madison, New York,2009(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | SCIBA Award for fiction, Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Paranormal Fantasy and for Favorite Book and for Goodreads Author (2011) |
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Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell.Mention Appertaining To Books A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1)
| Title | : | A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Deborah Harkness |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 579 pages |
| Published | : | February 2011 by Viking Penguin |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels |
Rating Appertaining To Books A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1)
Ratings: 4 From 340700 Users | 33397 ReviewsColumn Appertaining To Books A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1)
Upon sighting this book in a soon-to-be-closed Borders store, I was intrigued. The blurb sounded interesting and the first couple of pages seemed competently written. Despite the huge discount, I hesitated, and instead checked the book out from the library.And am I ever glad that I didn't actually buy it.The book started out promising. Protagonist Diana Bishop, distinguished history scholar and professor (just like the author! uh oh...), repressed witch, tea aficionado, rower and yoga
Well, this was the dumbest shit Ive read in quite a while. I picked it up thinking it would be some good escapist fantasy book with some romance thrown in but it turned out to be Twilight meets Instagram. We had some vampires, demons, and witches but they never did anything remotely interesting. It was all about yoga, fitness routines, early morning runs, elaborate and photogenic meals, wine drunk in old chateaus, cosy interiors and, I swear to you, there was a scene where the heroine drew her
Upon sighting this book in a soon-to-be-closed Borders store, I was intrigued. The blurb sounded interesting and the first couple of pages seemed competently written. Despite the huge discount, I hesitated, and instead checked the book out from the library.And am I ever glad that I didn't actually buy it.The book started out promising. Protagonist Diana Bishop, distinguished history scholar and professor (just like the author! uh oh...), repressed witch, tea aficionado, rower and yoga
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.Dr. Diana Bishop, descendant of the famous Bridget Bishop of Salem, Massachusetts, turned her back on her natural powers after her parents were killed when she was a child. Instead, she relied on her brain power, went to Oxford and Yale, and became a well-known researcher in the field of history of science. Now shes back at Oxford, spending the year studying old alchemical texts archived at the Bodleian Library. But when she calls the book known as Ashmole
[In the interests of full disclosure, I edited this review in September 2018. Upon reflection, some of my initial comments were a little too fangirl in style and my initial reference to Twilight was being misconstrued or used to make a point.. After many years and quite a few rereadings of this book, my enthusiasm for it has not waned, but I can appreciate why it troubles some readers. I believe one can be a thinking, modern and independent woman and yet still appreciate a male character who
I feel exactly the same way. I had to force myself to finish this book. The poor dialogue made it easy to speed read, simply glancing over the
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