Laura Reads: Shadow of Night Book Review
**Spoiler Alert: This review will include spoilers from A Discovery of Witches**
I highly recommend that you dead A Discovery of Witches before reading this review for Shadow of Night.
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Historian Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, and long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont have broken the laws dividing creatures. When Diana discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library,she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to Matthew. Now the fragile coexistence of witches, daemons, vampires and humans is dangerously threatened.
Seeking safety, Diana and Matthew travel back in time to London, 1590. But they soon realise that the past may not provide a haven. Reclaiming his former identity as poet and spy for Queen Elizabeth, the vampire falls back in with a group of radicals known as the School of Night. Many are unruly daemons, the creative minds of the age, including playwright Christopher Marlowe and mathematician Thomas Harriot.
Together Matthew and Diana scour Tudor London for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782, and search for the witch who will teach Diana how to control her remarkable powers.
Seeking safety, Diana and Matthew travel back in time to London, 1590. But they soon realise that the past may not provide a haven. Reclaiming his former identity as poet and spy for Queen Elizabeth, the vampire falls back in with a group of radicals known as the School of Night. Many are unruly daemons, the creative minds of the age, including playwright Christopher Marlowe and mathematician Thomas Harriot.
Together Matthew and Diana scour Tudor London for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782, and search for the witch who will teach Diana how to control her remarkable powers.
In the second book of this trilogy, Deb Harkness takes us back to Elizabethan London, where Diana earnestly searches for (and finds) a skilled witch to teach her how to control her powers and discovers that her powers are much greater than anyone, herself included, could ever have anticipated.
Harkness does a fantastic job of transporting her readers to all the places that Diana and Matthew venture to. As you follow their journey, you feel as if you are in Baynard's Castle and Sept-Tours and Prague.
Experiencing the evolution of Diana and Matthew's relationship as she learns more about his past and their future is thrilling and somewhat heart-warming. I loved that Matthew's character was really fleshed out (so to speak) in this book. I'm trying not to give too much away, but parts of his story are incredibly heart-breaking.
So much happens in this book as far as the search for Ashmole 782 is concerned. Diana and Matthew literally travel Europe tracking the manuscript and learning more of the power encased in it.
Once again, I totally recommend this trilogy. I'm so in love with the story and the characters; in ways, I didn't want to finish The Book of Life because I didn't want it to end!
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Harkness does a fantastic job of transporting her readers to all the places that Diana and Matthew venture to. As you follow their journey, you feel as if you are in Baynard's Castle and Sept-Tours and Prague.
Experiencing the evolution of Diana and Matthew's relationship as she learns more about his past and their future is thrilling and somewhat heart-warming. I loved that Matthew's character was really fleshed out (so to speak) in this book. I'm trying not to give too much away, but parts of his story are incredibly heart-breaking.
So much happens in this book as far as the search for Ashmole 782 is concerned. Diana and Matthew literally travel Europe tracking the manuscript and learning more of the power encased in it.
Once again, I totally recommend this trilogy. I'm so in love with the story and the characters; in ways, I didn't want to finish The Book of Life because I didn't want it to end!
Find me on GoodReads!
Other books in this trilogy: