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by Deborah Harkness

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Sometimes ancient libraries are keep mysteries secrets, like Oxford's Bodleian Library, where young girl Diana Bishop, without any goal find an alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell.

ISBN: 0143119680

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...surprised you find a southern exposure comfortable." "You don't believe everything you read, do you?" One of his thick, black eyebrows rose into the shape of a question mark. "If you're asking whether I think you're going to burst into flames the moment the sunlight hits you, the answer is no." Vampires didn't burn at the touch of sunlight, nor did they have fangs. These were human myths. "But I've never met . . . someone like you who liked to bask in its glow either." Clairmont's body remained still, but I could have sworn he was repressing a laugh. "How much direct experience have you had, Dr. Bishop, with `someone like me'?" How did he know I hadn't had much experience with vampires? Vampires had preternatural senses and abilities--but no supernatural ones, like mind reading or precognition. Those belonged to witches and, on rare occasions, could sometimes crop up in daemons, too. This was the natural order, or so my aunt had explained when I was a child and couldn't...

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All comments: 3

abiflip

28 Apr 2011 12:34:04

nice book

abiflip

28 Apr 2011 12:34:00

nice book

BluntLikeASpoon

24 Apr 2011 11:52:40

I'm at the half way mark and I'm liking the story so far, although there have been a couple of 'wtf' moments (the yoga classes in particular). It's a reasonably long book, by the way. It is a little over 500 pages.
There is on occasion clumps of information, especially at the beginning when the main character talks about her childhood, but then the story really starts to get rolling soon after.

However, there so many errors in here I'm wondering whether I should continue reading it. I'm a little frustrated that I have to spend a minute or two wondering what a word is. So many words are either not there, stuck onto the next word/sentence, repeated, incorrectly spelt or simply has the first letter of the word.

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ned that it might vanish than that I might come unglued. "Lamarck believed that each species descended from different ancestors and progressed independently toward higher forms of being. It's remarkably similar to what your alchemists believed--that the philosopher's stone was the elusive end product of a natural transmutation of base met