Book Review!

My book review for A Discovery of Witches is finally live over at BlogHer's Book Club.

It starts this way:

A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness, was a pleasant surprise.

 

I admit, I was looking forward to a nice read, even though I was leery of the premise: Witch meets Vampire and they can’t resist forbidden love. Trite.

 

And yet, there’s more to this story than that.

 

Much more. One just has to forgive a few things in the first chapter to find it...

but if you want to read the whole thing, you'll have to go over there :-)

(but I'll give you a spoiler -- my last sentence is:

 I’m eagerly looking forward to the sequel, and hope it comes out soon!

Comments

[Cgirl]

*grumbles* Dang you, that sounds GOOD!

And I just noticed that B&N has a new version of the Nook out; one with the whole screen being a touch screen. Plus the e-ink. I'm so terribly tempted, I can't even say.

I'd highly suggest you take Golf-Pro up to B&N and see what you both think of them.

[patty]

Yup I read it and was really disappointed. I (hanging my head down) started skipping a page, then a chapter, then read maybe the last chapter. I am so happy I borrowed it from the library. I would have been upset if I had bought the book only to find I found it, well, bad.

Every other line was "her looking into his eyes." (I roll mine) or about him sniffing her. Okay...

It needed a good editor, and a lot of cutting down. The everyday stuff, got boring quick.

I guess I really didn't like it! LOL

[Richard]

Have you read "The Name of the Wind"? Suspect so, you're typically ahead of me on finding good books to read...