A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness Reviews
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Newest Review: ... book had me hooked to the point where i could believe every word and even wondered if some of the people in my world were ... more
... actually daemons...!
Diana Bishop is a witch who is fighting against being a witch when she accidentally breaks a spell on a manuscript that holds secrets that many beings are after. This discovery causes the attention of lots of different beings and one in particular....the lovely Matthew Clairmont who is a vampire. He would like to know the secrets of the manuscript, but also has an interest in keeping Diana safe from less scrupulous beings. Such close attention can only mean one thing..... they fall in love! Causing...more
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Deborah E. Harkness A Discovery of Witches(Basic)
Pages: 881, Edition: Lrg, Hardcover, Thorndike Press Last Update 21.05.2013 06:03
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A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness: Twilight For Adults? (1052 words)by - written on 14/08/11 (Very useful, 80 readings)
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Diana Bishop is a Historian specialising in ancient manuscripts associated with Alchemy. She is also a Witch of impressive pedigree. Due to distressing incidents in her past Diana has turned her back on all things magical and is determined to live an ordinary life studying the subject she loves. An incident in the Bodleian Library suddenly plunges Diana into a world she genuinely knows little about and luckily a tall, handsome Vampire by the name of Matthew is on hand to guide her through the mysterious world of the fragile peace that exists between Humans and Creatures. Vampire books seem to have been extremely popular in the last few years varying ... Read the complete review
Oh, Oh, Oh It's Magic! (1308 words)by - written on 04/11/10 (Very useful, 157 readings)
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"The leather-bound volume was nothing remarkable. To an ordinary historian, it would have looked no different from hundreds of other manuscripts is Oxford's Bodleian library, ancient and worn. But I knew there was something odd about it from the moment I collected it." In Diana's Bishop's life, there is something odd about a lot of things. Hers is a world that appears to be the same as our own, but it which something unusual hides just out of sight of most humans. Creatures, to be precise. Some are vampires, some are witches, and some are daemons, unstable beings who sit on the divide between great creative genius and destructive madness. The ... Read the complete review
by - written on 06/02/11 (Very useful, 270 readings)
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- - - - - - - - - - In a nutshell - - - - - - - - - - A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES is centred around American historian Dr Diana Bishop when she happens to come across an enchanted manuscript one night whilst researching at Oxford's Bodleian library. Diana is a witch, who has been living as a human since the death of her parents 20 years earlier, so she panics when she feels the magic surrounding the mysterious manuscript and sends it straight back down into the stacks and tries to forget about it. However she quickly notices that fellow witches and daemons seem to be flocking around her, but most distracting of all is Professor Matthew ... Read the complete review
by - written on 01/02/12 (Very useful, 22 readings)
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This book gripped me from the start. I got lost in the plot and the characters and the history as well. There are many stories in the story in this book and it takes you into a world of witches, vampires and daemons that walk the earth along with humans. I personally find any kind of myth and science fiction hard to grasp and so i lose inerest in books of this genre because there are no special effects of films to make it more real to the viewer. But this book had me hooked to the point where i could believe every word and even wondered if some of the people in my world were actually daemons...! Diana Bishop is a witch who is fighting against being ... Read the complete review
by - written on 19/01/12 (Useful, 8 readings)
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When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript, she's drawn into a supernatural world she's struggled to avoid since childhood (coming from a lineage of powerful witches). However, by opening the tome, she exposes herself to a world of warlocks, daemons and vampires - and, in doing so, she meets and falls in love with the incredibly clever and enigmatic vampire, Matthew Clairemont as they battle this that and the other in what quickly becomes a very long-winded account. Basically, this book cries out for some serious editing. Worse still, it's not really that original either. It's sort of like a grown up Twilight but, unfortunately, Diana herself ... Read the complete review
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