I have to admit that it was so hard to keep reading these books because I really wanted the pace to pick up and for the action to happen but it only ever did in bite sizes and the most unexpected moments (which isn’t a bad thing because it was nice not predicting what would happen ahead of time).Īlthough I hated the slow pace, I couldn’t help but love the characters and immerse myself in the world so I really pushed myself to get through it and I think it was worth it. That is mostly because these books were slow they were so slow-paced and very much character-driven so the plot crawled across these three thick books like a bloated snail that just snacked on pizza. I feel like I have a strange love-hate relationship with this series because I enjoyed it ~ but it’s also the kind of book that I tend not to enjoy. As they begin to unlock the secrets of the manuscript and their feelings for each other deepen, so the fragile balance of peace unravels…

Diana is inexplicably drawn to Matthew and, in a shadowy world of half-truths and old enmities, ties herself to him without fully understanding the ancient line they are crossing. Sensing the significance of Diana’s discovery, the creatures gather in Oxford, among them the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, a vampire genticist. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she’s kept at bay for years one of powerful witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it’s an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Diana and Matthew – the forbidden love at the heart of it. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future.

In case you haven’t read them before, here’s the blurb for the first book: Goodreads Blurb: A Discovery of Witchesįall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestsellling ALL SOULS trilogy.Ī world of witches, daemons and vampires. All three books in the series are around 620 pages so they are thick and it was quite hard to get through them especially as I went through quite a hard time in January, and when reading thick books and reading slowly, it feels like you’re reading the same book for forever.įinally, I finished the last book this week and I’m now happily going to give you a short series review. I’ve had the first book on my shelves for so long – I think I bought it around the time the TV show was announced! And at the end of last year, I finally decided to pick it up because I was in a really ‘witchy’ book mood. If you read my Jan wrap-up, as you might be aware I’ve been trying to get through the All Souls Trilogy that began with A Discovery of Witches.

A discovery of witches trilogy