A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) by Deborah Harkness
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
1.5 stars
The author seems like a very intelligent woman and the ideas in itself are nice (Darwin’s evolution theory explaining vampires is very interesting), but my god, the dialogues were just excruciatingly painful. The love story was even worse, if possible. Sadly, this covered about 90% of the book.
There were roughly three action scenes (that I remember at least) which took up 1-2 pages, followed by at least 20 pages of reminiscing about it in a very whiny way. The entire character of the protagonist, Diana Bishop, is also very whiny. Or on the edge of borderline disorder, going from sobbing ‘mehmehmeh, have pity on me’ to being murderously furious all within the length of one sentence.
I was looking forward to reading part 2 and 3. Now, I have no idea why they won any Goodreads awards…
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What?! You don’t like this book??? (All right I respect that,,,but I think the book is good!) Perhaps you can try the second and the third? I think they’re even better, especially when history is involved.
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Hahaha, I know right! I thought I was going to LOVE it. I bought book 2 along with book 1, so I might try that someday to see if it’s better :). Especially because people seem to like it so much! Thank you for stopping by here as well 🙂
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