There are the witches including Emily and Sarah, the extensive vampire family including Miriam, Marcus, Ysabeau and Marthe and deamons especially Hamish. Lots of characters to discover and love besides the main characters, Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont. I could not resist this book has always the elements I love - old dusty books, libraries and magic bundled together with descriptive pose and intriguing characters. From the moment Deborah Harkness transported me to the Bodleian library with Diana Bishop I was hooked. This is the first book in the All Souls trilogy and my favourite of the series. As they begin to unlock the secrets of the manuscript and their feelings for each other deepen, so the fragile balance of peace unravels… My Thoughts Diana is inexplicably drawn to Matthew and, in a shadowy world of half-truths and old enmities, ties herself to him without fully understanding the ancient line they are crossing. Sensing the significance of Diana’s discovery, the creatures gather in Oxford, among them the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, a vampire geneticist. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she’s kept at bay for years one of powerful witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it’s an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life.

The phenomenal international bestseller and the first volume in the enthralling All SOULS trilogy, preceding SHADOW OF NIGHT and THE BOOK OF LIFE. The story continues in book two, Shadow of Night, and concludes with The Book of Life.A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense.

Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. 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. Book one of the New York Times-bestselling All Souls trilogy-'a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight” ( People).Īll three seasons of the hit TV series “A Discovery of Witches” are streaming now on AMC+, Sundance Now and Shudder.ĭeborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world.

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