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  Ruth added a soundbite 46 weeks ago

  Surprisingly vampire-heavy for a novel that seems like it should be about witches.

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  kalinj added a soundbite 1 year ago

  I had such high hopes for this book, after reading a great review of it in the NY times. Its slow!

“A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight.”
-People

In a sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches became the “it” book of early 2011, bringing Deborah Harkness into the spotlight and galvanizing fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and the descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. 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 story of magic and suspense. And the story continues in Book Two, Shadow of Night.