Don’t let anyone fool you. This is the Twilight series for adults. Seriously. The plot centers around a
witch, Diana, who has refused to use her powers really. She’s a historian of
science, studying ancient alchemy texts and splitting her time between Oxford
and Yale Universities.
Then she calls up this text from the library that causes
many different creatures to follow her around. One of them is a mysterious,
attractive vampire named Matthew. (You can see where this is going.) Somewhere
in the middle of her trying to get information from him about why all of these
creatures want this text and him trying to protect her from these creatures
they fall madly in love. And so it goes.
I was a little frustrated with how much of the book is
centered on their relationship. There is this whole message from her mother
that they think refers to Matthew and all that. Ugh, she doesn’t need a man in
order to do her thing! And also how much time they spent doing nOTHING. The
first third of the text involves them sitting in a library. The next third
Matthew brings Diana to his home in France and she sleeps roughly 80% of the
time. I mean Harkness if you want to prove that Diana is not a damsel in distress
she could act like it just a little more!
Having said that, I think that it was really well written.
The characters are very fleshed out, even the minor ones clearly have
independent thoughts and wills and backstories. And her portrayal of magic and
vampires is fascinating. Harkness is a historian, so a number of fascinating
historical facts come to light in the plot, through both Diana (as a historian)
and Matthew (as an ancient vampire).
This series was adapted to tv fairly recently, I’ll probably
watch the adaptation, even if I decide that the rest of the series isn’t really
my thing. But yeah, if you’re looking for Twilight
with a little more substance to it, this is the book for you.
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