Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness review

Title: Shadow of Night

Author: Deborah Harkness

Ch: 42

Pg: 583

Series: All Souls Trilogy

Genre: Paranormal romance time travel

Rating: 4 stars

Publisher: Penguin

Shadow of Night is the second book in the All Souls trilogy and picks up immediately where A Discovery of Witches ends with that cliff hanger.  So it's very important that you read that one first. In Shadow of Night I grow to love Diana and Matthew more than I thought I could.  In this book you learn more about Matthew's past.  And in doing so the reader becomes more sympatric   to    the reason he is the way he is with Diana. But on the same note Diana starts to learn who she truly is in this one and come into her own. 

I loved the fact that they are in Tudor England for the majority of the book so that made this history nerd happy as well as seeing Tudor era Holy Roman Empire.  Though that's about all I can say about this one without giving much of the first book away.  And like A Discovery of Witches this one ends with a cliff hanger as well.  And I can't wait to pick up The Book of Life the final book in the trilogy though I'm sad to see it end I can't wait to find out what happens to Diana and Matthew and everyone they love. 

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness review

Title:  A Discovery of Witches

Author:  Deborah Harkness

Ch: 43 

Pg:  579

Series: All Souls

Genre:  Fiction Paranormal time travel

Rating: 4 stars

Publisher: Penguin books

 

 A Discovery of Witches has been one of those books that has been sitting on my bookshelf for a few years. Never finding its way to the top of the list even when the first season of the TV show came out, because quite frankly Twilight and the craze that came from that series kind of made me hate vampire fiction. But when author Rachel McMillan was raving about the book series and the show on Instagram during the last year, I decided to finally give the first book a try. And I am glad that I did. A Discovery of Witches isn't just a vampire book it's a book with a strong and determined young woman Diana Bishop who’s trying to hide who she is, and Matthew Clairmont who she's Diana for who she is and just happens to be a vampire.

 

While Matthew wants to protect Diana because that's just who he is and how he was raised, he also wants her to learn her to defend and protect herself. He wants to fight beside her not for her, which in my book makes him the perfect hero, and I'm looking forward the next book in the series. And the secondary characters just add to the story.