With 2011’s “A Discovery of Witches,” 2012’s “Shadow of Night,” and now “The Book of Life,” Rowling’s Harry Potterverse of wizards, witches, and muggles, but since hers are novels for adults, Harkness gets away with double entendres and PDAs (private displays of affection) that would make Harry, Hermione, and Ron blush. As has been frequently noticed, it’s not unlike J. K. The charm in Deborah Harkness’s wildly successful All Souls trilogy lies not merely in the spells that its creature characters cast as they lurk pretty much in plain sight of humans, but in the adroit way Harkness has insinuated her world of demons, witches, and vampires into ours. (And in case you're confused, he calls himself Clairmont his family are the de Clermonts - long story.Author Deborah Harkness tracks the fiery romance of a historian-witch and a scientist-vampire.
The joint Bishop and de Clermont family favorites - Gallowglass the affable Gael, no-nonsense witch Sarah, ice queen Ysabeau - are joined by handfuls of newcomers, who alternately help or hinder the twist-a-minute plot as Diana and Matthew deal with the implications of her pregnancy and the various factions that will descend on them unless the secrets of Ashmole 782 can be unlocked in time. With The Book of Life, Harkness wraps the last panel in a triptych of uninterrupted story (those curious about the series would do best to start at the beginning). Harkness, on home ground there, clearly delighted in the details, immersing the reader in the vibrant markets and omnipresent mud puddles of Elizabethan London. Its sequel, Shadow of Night, went for broke and hurtled Diana and Matthew back to 1590 with a cast so large it required a glossary. A few years later, her first novel, A Discovery of Witches, told the story of Diana Bishop, a historian who accidentally discovers a lost manuscript called Ashmole 782 in the Bodleian Library, and realizes it's a magical text of crucial importance to the daemons and vampires that crowd the streets of Oxford - not to mention the witches (a group to which Diana reluctantly belongs).Ī Discovery of Witches lingered on the wooing of Diana by vampire Matthew Clairmont, setting the stage for what was clearly drama yet to unfold glimpses of rare-book hunting and Byzantine vampire-family politics helped enliven his distinctly musty overprotectiveness and her conveniently enduring lack of knowledge of the supernatural world. One upon a time, historian Deborah Harkness was doing research at Oxford's Bodleian Library when she accidentally discovered a lost book that had belonged to 16th-century astronomer John Dee. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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