Sunday, 18 October 2015

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

“Just another love sick YA book”

Despite itsmany potentials, the book became very much just another adolescent supernatural story of star-crossed lovers, and it reminded me of twilight and Premonition series in terms of a powerful and aged hero trying to protect the inexperienced  and relatively weak/ fragile heroine.

It was fun to read how magic was negated with scientific explanations in the beginning, and not to mention how knowledgeable the mentions of all those historical events/books are. However, the book loses its appeal once Diana got nervous breakdown, which unfortunately put Matthew into red-alert lunaticallly protective mode. As instead of finding out about the dormant ability inside the witch, all Diana and Matthew do is playing love sick for each other, very much the way hormone-filled teenagers do.


And I can’t feel falling out of the book. DNF I declared. I fear.

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