The protagonist, Diana Bishop, is a witch from a prominent family line that stretches all the way back to Salem, but due to her ineptitude for magic, and a fear of persecution like the one that led to her parents’ deaths, she leaves behind that part of her life to throw herself completely in mundane academics, and is a historian whose specialty is history of magic. Okay, first off, I totally started this book because of the show – I liked it well enough, and of course had to go read the source material for more info! Now, A Discovery of Witches is urban fantasy in which three supernatural – witches, vampires, and daemons (not demons) – live alongside humans while in hiding. Warnings: violence and gore, death of parents, torture Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harknessĭeep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research.
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