A Discovery of Witches

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This book was really good, just really long! It is 584 pages and jam packed with tons of stuff going on. I really loved the story, but I feel like the author could have made it a little less complicated and left some of the stuff out. What makes this book a little different from the other supernatural/vampire books is that the main characters are 30 something year olds. No teenagers! So that was a little refreshing. I don't think this is a young adult book, but it probably could be because there is no swearing and while there is talk of sex, there is very little descriptive sex scenes. Anyways, here is a little of what the book is about....

Diana is a historian whose family history is extensive and well known. She is part of the Bishop family who are a long line of powerful witches. Diana however has tried to forget and ignore the fact that she is witch. That is until while in the library doing work she comes across a bewitched manuscript. She sends the book back, trying to fight her urge to use magic to figure out this manuscript and that is when her life changes. Next thing she knows she is running into more witches, daemons, and vampires everywhere. She meets Matthew, a mysterious vampire. Together they try to understand and find the importance of this manuscript, they fall in love, fight off other creatures and try to bring Diana's witch out after being ignored and hidden deep inside her. There is a lot more going on too, but this gives you a taste.

A Discovery of Witches is the first in the All Souls Trilogy. The next book comes out summer of 2012.

Happy Reading!



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