El Descubrimiento de las Brujas (Paperback)

from bookworm12

Dear "A Discovery of Witches," When I heard you were "Twilight for adults" I was skeptical and a bit hesitant to pick you up. Then you were available as a Kindle library loan and I thought what the heck. When I started reading you, you reminded me more of The Historian than Twilight and I thought...

from nicx27

Diana Bishop comes from a long line of witches. She is doing research at the Bodleian Library in Oxford when one of the books that she calls up from the archives changes her entire life. She then meets Matthew Clairmont, a vampire (witches and vampires shouldn't really mix) and she finds herself ...

from ReginaR

There is a lot about this book I enjoyed and (initially) liked. The literature, historical and mythological references. The attempt to incorporate science and theories of evolution in a supernatural tale. The settings all over the world; the setting in libraries and discussions of ancient texts. ...

from abbywilde

The heroine is claimed to be the smartest woman in Oxford and the most powerful witch in the world, yet can't manage to "learn the words" to her spells and is constantly on the verge of fainting, panicking, and/or requiring rescue at the hands of her new-age-yoga-performing-yet-still-possessive-a...

from Citizenjoyce

Twilight with alchemy. In fact I gave it 1 1/2 stars only because of the information about alchemy and the look at which powers belong to which creature. Diana, who supposedly has a PhD in history acts like a petulant 15 year old for most of the book. Why oh why would a woman write this sort of s...