Overview:
After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches--with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the trilogy’s final volume, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In ancestral homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to the palaces of Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.
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Review:
I have really enjoyed the All Souls Trilogy, and the final installment did not disappoint. The Book of Life did have some areas that were a little weaker than the previous books. One reviewer mentioned the shift in narrator, from first to third person. I had some difficulty transitioning between narrative perspectives... I think primarily because I didn't recall those shifts in the previous books, and at times they felt unnecessary.
There were a few characters who I thought would have a larger role in the book. Especially given the first chapter or two. So that felt a bit unresolved. There were some parts in which it seemed more back story would have been appropriate.Truthfully though, I'm hoping those unresolved items will result in additional books. As always, Harkness has done an amazing job developing characters and describing the places they live and work. So well researched. Anxious to read her next work. |
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