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Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes reluctant witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782—the lost and enchanted manuscript whose mystery first pulled Diana and Matthew into one another's orbit—deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew's past tightens around them. Together they find they must embark on a very different—and vastly more dangerous—journey.
“A captivating and romantic ripping yarn,”* Shadow of Night confirms Deborah Harkness as a master storyteller, able to cast an “addictive tale of magic, mayhem and two lovers”(Chicago Tribune).
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- ISBN: 9780593583890
- File size: 703019 KB
- Duration: 24:24:37
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- English
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May 21, 2012
Propelled by her successful fiction debut, A Discovery of Witches, historian Harkness concocts an energetic if chaotic sequel filled with witches, daemons, vampires, wearhs, weavers, and warm-bloods (aka humans) racing to retrieve a lost manuscript that details the origins of supernatural species, which, in the wrong hands, could hasten their extinction. The first novel culminated in the mixed marriage of vampire/scientist Matthew de Clermont to historian/untrained witch Diana Bishop. This novel opens with the newlyweds time-traveling to Elizabethan England so Diana can study witchcraft; never mind they’re burning witches in Scotland or that in London an educated American woman doesn’t exactly blend in. There, they hope to retrieve magical manuscript Ashmole 782, last seen in Oxford’s 21st-century Bodleian library. Diana gets in touch with her inner firedrake, Matthew with his father, but they can’t find a tutor for ages, and they can’t rescue the manuscript without a trip to Prague. Supporting Diana and Matthew in their quest is a secret society that includes dashing Walter Raleigh and dangerous daemon Christopher Marlowe. Harkness delights in lining up the living dead and modern academic history, as in her explanation of how a forger named Shakespeare, with supernatural prompting, takes up playwriting. This tale of a feminist Yankee in Queen Elizabeth’s court charms amid the tumult, as the gifted heroine and her groom fight for generations and another sequel to come in order to protect the magical world that’s all around us. Agent: Sam Stoloff. -
October 15, 2012
The second book in Harkness's "All Souls Trilogy" (after A Discovery of Witches) continues the saga of reluctant witch Diana Bishop, who, despite an ancient covenant prohibiting such a relationship, marries vampire and fellow scholar Matthew Clairmont. The unconventional couple travel back in time to Elizabethan England to hide out, explore Diana's newly discovered talents, and track down the elusive Ashmole 782, a mysterious text that may reveal secrets of the origins of creatures. Narrator Jennifer Ikeda successfully tackles the challenge of bringing to life a huge cast of both real and imagined characters, living in the past and present, through a variety of accents that give each a unique identity. VERDICT Harkness expertly weaves threads of science, history, and the occult around a passionate love story. Twilight fans looking for a more mature literary tale will enjoy this but should read A Discovery of Witches before diving into this installment in order to appreciate it fully. ["Destined to be as popular as its predecessor, Shadow of Night is a must buy," read the review of the Viking hc, LJ 5/15/12.--Ed.]--Theresa Horn, St. Joseph Cty. P.L., South Bend, IN
Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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