Matthew and Diana aren’t in England very long before they cause a ruckus and get sent to Sept Tours, Matthew’s ancestral home, where his dead father is still very much alive. However, too often I was pulled out of the story because of her name dropping (Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, to name a few) and all the historical detail. It made it difficult to just enjoy the story. I kept feeling that she set the book in the past not because it best served the story (though in some ways, it did), but because she knows history and wanted to incorporate it. Which brings me to my first annoyance: too often, I felt Harkness was using her status as a historian to show off. But my fundamental problem with the book is that I thought a good third to half of this book was wholly unnecessary.īecause of the conflicts set up in A Discovery of Witches, and because Diana needs help figuring out what kind of witch she is (and to control her magic), Matthew and Diana travel to the past. I liked parts of this book, and others not so much. However, the long explanation is a lot more complicated. The bottom line: if you liked Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, you’ll probably really like this one.
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