I resisted reading Discovery of Witches, the first book in this series for a long time. Despite the great reviews. Because? It sounded like a very tired urban fantasy trope - woman discovers she's a witch, a very powerful witch and falls in love with a vampire. Hilarity ensues, blahblahdiddyblah.
Except.
That's totally not how the book was. Nary a sparkling vampire in sight. No leather pants. No necrofu.
Just a really engaging, well written book. So I was quite looking forward to Shadow of Night, the sequel. And I was not disappointed! Not only did this have all of the goodness of the first book, supernaturals, libraries, academia, knotty mysteries, the sequel also has time travel to Elizabethan England! Woo and hoo!
I adored finding out more about Matthew's past, his friends and family. It was so apparent that the author is an historian as she lovingly described clothing and alchemical experiments. And yet I never felt, as I have with some authors, that she was simply cramming in facts because she'd done the research.
Thoroughly enjoyed the second book and I'm eagerly looking forward to the next!
Publish date July 2012
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