Monday, April 28, 2014

Currently Reading: Shadow of Night


I started reading this last night. Even though I have a little over two weeks left before I return it to the library, I decided to get an early start. It's nearly six hundred pages and I'm also still reading three other books so I figured I would tackle it a little bit at a time so I don't run out of time.


Book: Shadow of Night (A Souls Trilogy book #2) by Deborah Harkness

Source: Library

Description:

IT BEGAN WITH A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES.

Historian Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, and long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont have broken the laws dividing creatures. When Diana discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library,she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to Matthew. Now the fragile coexistence of witches, daemons, vampires and humans is dangerously threatened.

Seeking safety, Diana and Matthew travel back in time to London, 1590. But they soon realise that the past may not provide a haven. Reclaiming his former identity as poet and spy for Queen Elizabeth, the vampire falls back in with a group of radicals known as the School of Night. Many are unruly daemons, the creative minds of the age, including playwright Christopher Marlowe and mathematician Thomas Harriot.

Together Matthew and Diana scour Tudor London for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782, and search for the witch who will teach Diana how to control her remarkable powers...


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