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A Discovery of Witches
by Deborah Harkness
Update: I watched the 2018 television adaption from the Sundance Now channel and it was actually a decent show. I will definitely be watching season 2.
This was a DNF for me.
A book that deals with witches, time travel, AND the pursuit of scholastic knowledge?
It seemed like Deborah Harkness had tailored this book just for me. However, just like [b: Outlander|10987|Voyager (Outlander, #3)|Diana Gabaldon|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1483278195s/10987.jpg|1131570], this book suffered from what I like to call, the "smart women meets alpha male and loses her s___" syndrome, which basically means that the main character just loses all her common sense along with her willpower within a 50 pages of the beginning of the book.
I really get upset when authors take this approach to character building of female protagonist because it seems like a waste of a novel. On top of this, the authors also seem to believe that they can add copious amounts of sex on top of their one track plotline and it just turns the novel into a mundane read with no redeemable qualities. I personally can only take so much of an alpha male forcibly directing the female protagonist (who the author has gone out of her way to detail as being SMART to begin with) around before I become sick of reading these type of lackluster novels and chuck them in the bin.
…sigh…But, I digress. Read it if you want, don't if you don't want. I can't recommend it in good faith to anyone. If you like this book you may like [b: Fifty Shades of Grey|10818853|Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)|E.L. James|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1385207843s/10818853.jpg|15732562] or [b: Twilight|41865|Twilight (Twilight, #1)|Stephenie Meyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1361039443s/41865.jpg|3212258]. Otherwise, just go and watch the television show and save yourself the trouble of wasting valuable reading time.
This was a DNF for me.
A book that deals with witches, time travel, AND the pursuit of scholastic knowledge?
It seemed like Deborah Harkness had tailored this book just for me. However, just like [b: Outlander|10987|Voyager (Outlander, #3)|Diana Gabaldon|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1483278195s/10987.jpg|1131570], this book suffered from what I like to call, the "smart women meets alpha male and loses her s___" syndrome, which basically means that the main character just loses all her common sense along with her willpower within a 50 pages of the beginning of the book.
I really get upset when authors take this approach to character building of female protagonist because it seems like a waste of a novel. On top of this, the authors also seem to believe that they can add copious amounts of sex on top of their one track plotline and it just turns the novel into a mundane read with no redeemable qualities. I personally can only take so much of an alpha male forcibly directing the female protagonist (who the author has gone out of her way to detail as being SMART to begin with) around before I become sick of reading these type of lackluster novels and chuck them in the bin.
…sigh…But, I digress. Read it if you want, don't if you don't want. I can't recommend it in good faith to anyone. If you like this book you may like [b: Fifty Shades of Grey|10818853|Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)|E.L. James|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1385207843s/10818853.jpg|15732562] or [b: Twilight|41865|Twilight (Twilight, #1)|Stephenie Meyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1361039443s/41865.jpg|3212258]. Otherwise, just go and watch the television show and save yourself the trouble of wasting valuable reading time.