Shadow of night

Format:

Book

Title:

Shadow of night

Author:

Harkness, Deborah, 1965-

ISBN:

9780670023486

9780670025954

9780755384747

Publication Information:

New York : Viking, 2012.

Physical Description:

584 pages ; 24 cm

Series title(s):

All souls trilogy ;

All souls universe.

Number in series:

BK. 2.

Contents:

Woodstock : the old lodge -- Sept-Tours and the village of Saint-Lucien -- London : the Blackfriars -- The Empire : Prague -- London : the Blackfriars -- New world, old world -- Libri personae : the people of the book.

Summary:

A follow-up to the best-selling A Discovery of Witches finds Oxford scholar and reluctant witch Diana and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont in Elizabethan London, where Diana seeks a magical tutor and Matthew confronts elements from his past at the same time the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens.

Subject(s):

Witches -- Fiction.

Vampires -- Fiction.

Magic -- Fiction.

Time travel -- Fiction.

American fiction -- 21st century.

Libraries -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Fiction.

Genre:

Electronic Access:

http://deborahharkness.com

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Summary

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 ).

Author Notes

Deborah Harkness was born in 1965. She received a B. A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1986, a M. A. from Northwestern University in 1990, and a Ph. D. from the University of California at Davis in 1994. She is a professor of history at the University of Southern California. Harkness is a well-regarded historian of science and medicine, specializing in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Her first novel, A Discovery of Witches, was published in 2011. She is the author of the All Souls Trilogy. In 2006, she began a wine blog entitled, Good Wine Under $20. It provides an online record of her search for the best, most affordable wines. She made The New York Times Bestseller List with The Book of Life and Shadow of Night.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (4)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Propelled by her successful fiction debut, A Discovery of Witches, historian Harkness concocts an energetic if chaotic sequel filled with witches, daemons, vampires, wearhs, weavers, and warm-bloods (aka humans) racing to retrieve a lost manuscript that details the origins of supernatural species, which, in the wrong hands, could hasten their extinction. The first novel culminated in the mixed marriage of vampire/scientist Matthew de Clermont to historian/untrained witch Diana Bishop. This novel opens with the newlyweds time-traveling to Elizabethan England so Diana can study witchcraft; never mind they're burning witches in Scotland or that in London an educated American woman doesn't exactly blend in. There, they hope to retrieve magical manuscript Ashmole 782, last seen in Oxford's 21st-century Bodleian library. Diana gets in touch with her inner firedrake, Matthew with his father, but they can't find a tutor for ages, and they can't rescue the manuscript without a trip to Prague. Supporting Diana and Matthew in their quest is a secret society that includes dashing Walter Raleigh and dangerous daemon Christopher Marlowe. Harkness delights in lining up the living dead and modern academic history, as in her explanation of how a forger named Shakespeare, with supernatural prompting, takes up playwriting. This tale of a feminist Yankee in Queen Elizabeth's court charms amid the tumult, as the gifted heroine and her groom fight for generations and another sequel to come in order to protect the magical world that's all around us. Agent: Sam Stoloff. (July 10) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Kirkus Review

William Shakespeare, vampire hunter. Well, not exactly. But, thanks to the magic of time travel, Harkness' (A Discovery of Witches, 2011) latest finds witch and Oxford professor Diana Bishop and her lover, scientist and vampire Matthew Clairmont, at the tail end of Elizabethan England, when Shakespeare's career is about to take off. There, by happenstance, they meet Christopher Marlowe, who commands an uncommonly rich amount of data about the ways of the otherworld. Asked why the odd couple should attract attention, he remarks matter-of-factly, "Because witches and wearhs are forbidden to marry," an exchange that affords Diana, and the reader, the chance to learn a new word. Diana and Matthew talk a lot. They argue a lot, too, quibbling about the strangest things: " You are a vampire. You're possessive. It's who you are,' I said flatly, approaching him in spite of his anger. And I am a witch. You promised to accept me as I am--light and dark, woman and witch, my own person as well as your wife.' " But then they get to have extremely hot--indeed, unnaturally hot, given the cold blood of the undead--makeup sex, involving armoires and oak paneling and lifted petticoats and gripped buttocks. Meanwhile, Kit Marlowe gets to do some petticoat lifting of his own, even if his adventures lead him to a Bedlam populated by all kinds of unfortunate souls, from a few ordinary wackaloons of yore to a small army of daemons, witches, vampires and other exemplars of the damned and doomed. Will Shakespeare comes onto the scene late, but there's good reason for that--and maybe a little fodder for the Edward de Vere conspiratorial crowd, too. Clearly Harkness has great fun with all this, and her background as a literature professor gives her plenty of room to work with, and without, an ounce of pedantry. Sure, the premise is altogether improbable. But, that said, there's good fun to be had here, even for those who might wish for a moratorium on books about vampires, zombies, witches and other things that go bump in the night.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Booklist Review

Harkness' latest may be bit slow, but epic fantasy readers won't be deterred, and the author's fans will be thrilled to get the second installment of the All Souls Trilogy, which picks up right after the cliff-hanger ending of A Discovery of Witches (2011). Diana and Matthew journey back to 1590 England, intent on finding Diana a magic teacher and locating the enchanted manuscript, Ashmole 782. But, in an era of witch hunts, it's no easy trick to find a witch willing to teach the wife of a famously antiwitch vampire. Both teacher and pupil may well risk their lives in the process, especially after King James starts persecuting witches in Scotland. Still, there is a good side to visiting an era in which Matthew's father, Phillipe, is still alive; in which witches know about weavers like Diana; and in which alchemy is an accepted research area. Those who enjoy a well-developed world, lots of historical detail, and plenty of character development will find much to like here. Make sure to point Harkness out to Diana Gabaldon fans looking for a new historical fantasy epic. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: A Discovery of Witches debuted at number two on the New York Times bestseller list and is being adapted into a movie by David Auburn. Buzz suggests that Warner Brothers sees the trilogy as the filling the gap left by Harry Potter.--Moyer, Jessica Copyright 2010 Booklist

Library Journal Review

Picking up where last summer's best-selling A Discovery of Witches left off, geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont and Oxford scholar and witch Diana Bishop travel back in time to Elizabethan England to hunt for the enchanted Ashmole 782 manuscript and to seek magic lessons for Diana. VERDICT Readers who enjoyed the first book's striking detail and complex world-building will be equally as thrilled with this second book in the trilogy, as Harkness, a scholar herself (history, Univ. of Southern California), focuses her lens on the denizens, culture, and geography of late 16th-century Europe. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.