Why did I love this book?
A Discovery of Witches is a series of four known as the All Souls Trilogy.
Deborah tells the stories well with engaging characters and settings. They are a combination of vampires and witches and take you through when Matthew and Dianna first meet all the way through their marriage and children.
There is time travel included in Shadow of Night. The Elizabethan time period in England is done so well right down to the gas lights and merchants.
19 authors picked A Discovery of Witches as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.