![]() Reflecting the social situations of the time, for most of this book Diana becomes little more than a shadow of her freshly-wedded undead husband, much less the heroine in her own story. We trudge through an awful lot of meeting-the-family and rehabilitating waifs and strays, and endure a tip of the hat to every well-known Elizabethan in town – because of course the ageless vampire Matthew was best friends wich Walter Rayleigh and Christopher Marlowe, wasn’t he? ![]() More of this novel seems to be given over to the less-than-gripping details about how to run a gentleman’s household, how wide one’s ruff should be, and how many hoops a well-to-do lady wears inside her skirt than the infinitely more interesting matter of unleashing Diana’s familiar, a frisky fire-dragon. What follows is more a traditional historical romance, replete with the minutae of Elizabethan life, than your average spookynatural romp. Here they plunge back in time seeking answers from an olde booke of magicke in the Elizabethan era, where Diana may also be able to find wise witches to teach her how to control her increasingly unruly powers. Diana, an academic historian and untrained modern-day witch, has fallen hard for Matthew, an ancient vampire one of those cross-species forbidden loves which is further complicated by her inability to use any of her natural magicks and his melancholic verging on downright miserable personality, which dwells on multiple lifetimes of sorrow. To make any sense at all of this, the second book in the All Souls trilogy, you really need to have read the opening episode, A Discovery of Witches to make head or tail of the relationship between the two lead characters. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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