A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1)
by Deborah Harkness
Fantasy, Paranormal
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Synopsis
Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.
What I thought
Well, I finally picked this one up, it has been sitting on my shelves since 2011 when it came out. Yes, I do know how that sounds. Feel free to shame me now.
There for a long time I felt guilty reading new books because I have so many other books just sitting on my shelf not read. Well, that has changed as you can see in my last months wrap up I read more books that I bought this year than my backlist books…Oops.
So how did I feel after letting this sit on my shelf for 8 years? I enjoyed it. Funny enough I don’t think I would have liked it back then so it sat there for a reason.
Now before you go and pick up this book, let me warn you its a long one and the first 2/3 of this book is slow. At one point I really considered DNF’ing it due to the slowness but when I thought about it I really liked it and just sat it down for a few days and came back to it. I believe that the slowness is due to the author trying to lay out so much at one time. This book gives a lot of backstory and history that I am really hoping was needed for the next book in the series.
I will be picking up the next book in this series because I really did like it and my only drawback was the pacing in the first 2/3 of the book and that is a lot of pages when the book is 579 pages long. If you don’t mind a slow story then this is for you!
My Rating: /5
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wow, eight years? i enjoyed this book a lot when i read it… three, four years ago. i read the whole trilogy in one sitting, and yes, long, and yes, you’ll need the info going ahead.
looking forward to hearing what you thought of the second.
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I just started this one! So thanks for the heads up about it being slow at first 🙂
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I read this back in college so a while ago 🙂 Glad you liked it! The show is making me want to do a reread!
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I wanted to read it before I watch the show.
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I have this book on my kindle… I hope to get to it soon but you are right it is slow… I read a bit and left it to be read later..
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It was good but so until you hit the 2/3 mark.
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