Post by Susanne on Mar 29, 2021 8:31:22 GMT
A Discovery of Witches is the first book in the All Souls trilogy by the American author and historian, Deborah Harkness.
A Discovery of Witches follows the American historian, Diana Bishop, who lives in Oxford, England, where she's doing research on alchemy. She is especially interested in the Ashmole manuscripts and one day while at the Bodleian library, she manage to get a special Ashmole manuscript, which has been lost for ages. She opens it and it's the beginning of the adventure, Diana is thrown into.
Besides from being a historian, she's also a reluctant witch and refuse to perform magic. She lost her parents at age seven and grew up with her aunt Sarah and her aunt's partner Emily in Madison, New York.
During the book, she meets a vampire, named Matthew Clairmont, who is very interested in the manuscript Diana managed to get her hands on. Matthew is a genetic scientist and is looking into the loss of abilities among the witches, demons and vampires that exist among the humans.
A Discovery of Witches is also turned into a TV-show. The first two series can be seen on Sky TV in GB, HBO Nordic in Scandinavia and Sundance and Shudder in the States.
I fell in love with the book, cause it's different from your typical fantasy novel. This is for grown ups, clearly and even though I don't understand the more scientific language in the book, then it gives a logical explanation to why vampires, witches and demons exist.
A Discovery of Witches follows the American historian, Diana Bishop, who lives in Oxford, England, where she's doing research on alchemy. She is especially interested in the Ashmole manuscripts and one day while at the Bodleian library, she manage to get a special Ashmole manuscript, which has been lost for ages. She opens it and it's the beginning of the adventure, Diana is thrown into.
Besides from being a historian, she's also a reluctant witch and refuse to perform magic. She lost her parents at age seven and grew up with her aunt Sarah and her aunt's partner Emily in Madison, New York.
During the book, she meets a vampire, named Matthew Clairmont, who is very interested in the manuscript Diana managed to get her hands on. Matthew is a genetic scientist and is looking into the loss of abilities among the witches, demons and vampires that exist among the humans.
A Discovery of Witches is also turned into a TV-show. The first two series can be seen on Sky TV in GB, HBO Nordic in Scandinavia and Sundance and Shudder in the States.
I fell in love with the book, cause it's different from your typical fantasy novel. This is for grown ups, clearly and even though I don't understand the more scientific language in the book, then it gives a logical explanation to why vampires, witches and demons exist.
To be fair it's a beast of a book so I was kind of prepared for a slower start.
