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Now that Christmas is over, it’s time to focus on the New Year, and what we want to bring into 2022. Can you imagine what 2022 will be like? Or will you be dreading it…?
Anyways, once again, I skipped a few days of Blogmas because I couldn’t figure out which books to add to those prompts. But, we’re back for our final 2 prompts! We continue our 12 Days of Blogmas 2021 with Day 22, using Sophie @ Beware of the Reader‘s Blogmas prompts. Hers features Best Historical Fiction:
Blogmas Day 29: Best Historical Fiction
I feel like since I’m such a huge fan of Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, that should be my typical answer. But looking back, I’m more into A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. The combination of witchcraft, magic, vampires, demons, and the like, all trying to coexist together is so fascinating. Plus, the romance between witch historian Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont is so steamy but also pretty adult. Not sexy, but more mature. With Diana being a historian, there are several moments of historical fiction that keep me intrigued during the All Souls Trilogy. I’m not that big into American history, but European history is fascinating to me!
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Published by Penguin LCC US on September 27, 2011
Pages: 720
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Book one of the New York Times-bestselling All Souls trilogy--"a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight" (People).
Now "[a] hot show that's like Twilight meets Outlander" (Thrillist) airing Sundays on AMC and BBC America, as well as streaming on Sundance Now and Shudder.Deborah Harkness's sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.
Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense. The story continues in book two, Shadow of Night, and concludes with The Book of Life.
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