A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Sep 05, 2012 Carrie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-romance, tower-team, vampire, romance, time-travel, parnormal, supernatural, magic, witches, wizards

So this book was great. When I first started it felt a little slow, but I must confess when I started reading I was rather tried so that might have played a slight role in the slowness of the book. Hence the 4 stars rather then 5.

I found the the information about alchemy fascinating, the whole story is so interesting. The descriptions of everything were perfect (to me at least). I can not wait to find out what happens next. I'm a excited and a little scared, not because the book is scary, I'm s ...more

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Jul 23, 2011 Marla rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal, historical-fiction, book-club, mystery, girl-power, recommended-to-me, adult, magic, fantasy, couldnt-put-down

4.5 stars. Long book, but easy, interesting read. Explores a world where witches, vampires and daemons walk mostly unnoticed among humans. A sweet and funny story of a romance between an ancient French vampire and a stubborn American witch.

Likes:
* Diana Bishop trying to run from her nature and magic toward history and knowledge, daughter of witch Rebecca Bishop and wizard Stephen Proctor.
* Matthew Clairmont sounds intriguing, his protectiveness, his vast knowledge, his success as a scientist
* Co ...more

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Aug 03, 2012 shalini rated it it was ok

Author vacillates between Stephnie meyer series and Harry potter and has added time travel ( time traveller's wife)for a good measure of intrigue. Its like she has read all the fantasy fiction series and then picked out bit and pieces from every where and added them into the plot. The cherry on the cake is the Harlequin-esque romance between the Vampire and the witch. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARTGH!!!

While reading about the Vampires, I had flashbacks from Twilight series and half expected Edward Cullen to ...more

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Jul 26, 2012 Logan rated it really liked it

Shelves: own-bought-paper, paranormal, 2013-books-read

The complexity of the world and beautiful, rich writing give this 5 star appeal, but the plot lost major momentum in the last third of the book and I nearly didn't finish it. Glad I did, and am looking forward to the next book. ...more

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Jul 12, 2012 Kimberly rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2012

Wow! I finished the book and felt the need to take a nap.
I don’t think my brain was ready for all the history and science involved with evolution of the story line. Not that history and science are a bad thing, but wow.
There were parts that dragged in the book such as some of the explanations of the science and history of the Ashmole 782. In the end though, things come together and explain why this book is so important to Diana and Matthew.
Then there’s Diana and Matthew. They were so cuuuuute!
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