Book profile
A Discovery of Witches
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2011
- Spice
- Heat not verified
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Historian and witch Diana Bishop inadvertently unleashes the power of a long-lost alchemical manuscript when she examines it in Oxford's Bodleian Library, drawing the attention of the hidden supernatural community she has suppressed since the violent deaths of her parents. Despite longstanding enmities between witches and vampires, Diana feels an inexplicable pull to vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and the pair slowly build a romantic bond as they investigate the manuscript's secrets, even as their connection threatens the fragile peace between their magical species.
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- Forbidden Love: “ties herself to him without fully understanding the ancient line they are crossing” source
- Witchy Romance: “Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage” source
- Enemies to Lovers: “in a shadowy world of half-truths and old enmities” source
- Slow Burn: “As they begin to unlock the secrets of the manuscript and their feelings for each other deepen” source
- Fated Mates: “Diana is inexplicably drawn to Matthew” source
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Content notes
- death of parent
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death of parent: “the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft.” Source
