Book Review: A Discovery of Witches By Deborah Harkness

Book Title:  A Discovery of Witches
Author:  Deborah Harkness
Genre: Paranormal, Romance

This book caught my attention the "old-fashioned" way.  In the store, while grocery shopping!  I see this beautiful blue, the artwork is fantastical yet ancient looking, with a fascinating large title that just drew me to it and said, "pick me up and read my description!".  

"A Discovery of Witches" had me reading non-stop for a day and a half.  I literally could not put this book down.  It met all the right requirements; forbidden love, damsel in distress, but in a different way!

The characters are truly very well thought out and believable in the land of "paranormal".  You love them, you loath them, you think "if I met this person we would definitely be friends!".

The storytelling is fascinating, fast paced with secret societies, rules, guidelines, loyalty beyond description.  Yet beneath it all you get a little bit of a history lesson as well as a lesson in DNA and it's understandable!

Our characters met each other by accident, when Diana, a history professor at Oxford checks out a book that calls to all magically beings and puts them in an uproar.  Soon she realizes there are "creatures" all over the library trying to find the book she just sent back but can't check out again as it's missing.  Step in Matthew, our vampire/geneticist who is trying to find the answer to the question of why the "creatures" are going extinct.  He protects Diana from the less than honorable "creatures" now threatening her.

From there the plot grabs you and won't let you go.  Then there is the secret society who gets involved and threatens anyone in it's way.  Friends and family help to walk across the proverbial mine fields, as our Diana learns who she is and what she can do, to an extent.  In the quest to answer the questions that have presented themselves, the plot thickens and the next answer...  is the second book in the series, which I could not wait to get.  Thank goodness it came when it did!  As we Travel to the Past, to learn about our future...

I will definitely be reading and re-reading this for years to come!  I've only done that with one other series so far in my life and that series is now going on to be a TV Movie, so here's hoping!

4.5 out of 5 Bookmarks

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