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Shadow of Night
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The #1 New York Times bestselling second installment in the All Souls series, from the author of The Discovery of Witches and The Black Bird Oracle.
Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder!
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).
Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder!
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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“This was a fantastic follow up to "A Discovery of Witches" Strikely different tone to the first book but delves into a whole new world of relationships and intriguing connections with lots of danger. Re-emphasizing how things begin with desire and fear. Overall magical and whimsical and also scary and harsh at times to great effect to carry along a truly ellaborate plot that keeps you hooked to the end.”
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“I wanted to give this book a higher rating than I did, but I reeeaaalllly struggled with Matthew's character development, his decisions, his incredible shortsightedness and apparent stupidity. For someone who's supposed to be so long lived and has lived so many lives, he behaved in an unbelievably stupid way, apparently failed to see the problems until it was too late, and blamed Diana for many of them. It was very difficult to suspend my disbelief on that score. And Diana was annoying me in her own way too, although she was faaaar more sensible than Matthew. I understand that she wanted to fit in - excellent logic that Matthew was lacking - but it took far too long for her to pay any real attention to her magic, and then when she finally got there, it was hardly given any attention at all. I was really quite disappointed in how shallow the exploration of this purportedly rare and powerful magic was. I must say, given what the book claimed it would be about, it was much more rambling and unfocused than I would have expected. I'm not sure whether I'll read the rest of the series to be honest.”
About Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the All Souls series, which includes A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, The Book of Life, Time's Convert, and The Black Bird Oracle. A history professor at the University of Southern California, Harkness has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships. She lives in Los Angeles.