The #1 New York Times bestselling second installment in the All Souls series, from the author of The Discovery of Witches and The Black Bird Oracle.
Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder!
Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes reluctant witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782—the lost and enchanted manuscript whose mystery first pulled Diana and Matthew into one another's orbit—deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew's past tightens around them. Together they find they must embark on a very different—and vastly more dangerous—journey.
“A captivating and romantic ripping yarn,”* Shadow of Night confirms Deborah Harkness as a master storyteller, able to cast an “addictive tale of magic, mayhem and two lovers”(Chicago Tribune).
I listened to this story which, in my opinion, made it easier for me to get through the entire thing. It is an extremely long story and a little hard to follow. The story takes place mostly in the 1500s and is narrated by Diana. It does occasionally jump to different times and different people, which was a little confusing at the time I was reading it. This time travel does make sense once you figure it out and helps explain why something was done in the past or explains something that will happen in the future.
I was disappointed because I was anticipating this story a lot. It wasn't bad, just not as good as I expected.
