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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
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A Discovery of Witches follows Diana, a professor of historical alchemy in England, as she meets a mysterious vampire and discovers a powerful manuscript that may be connected to her past.
Gag. This was awful. It started out pretty decent, the author is obviously very intelligent with words. But as soon as a forbidden vampire romance was thrown in, it just all went to hell. It would have been a bajillion times better without the romance.
I found Matthew, the vampire, to be cliche, overprotective, and annoying. Oh, but not as annoying as Diana. Do you know how clingy, codependent, whiny, pathetic she is? I swear. She's not a mature, independent woman, but rather a vapid, helpless damsel in distress.
(Check out my reading progress.)
This book was so bad in my opinion, that I can't even write a decent review for it. Ugh. I hereby swear to henceforth avoid "bestsellers," "number-ones," and/or "popular reads," due to the apparent SUCKISHNESS of each one. The Fault in Our Stars, Harry Potter, and....yeah, that's basically it for exceptions. I'm done with the popular bestselling books. They all suck, just like this one.
OK, yeah, I'm super irritable right now. Hence the major hating. I might come back and write a nicer review later.
Gag. This was awful. It started out pretty decent, the author is obviously very intelligent with words. But as soon as a forbidden vampire romance was thrown in, it just all went to hell. It would have been a bajillion times better without the romance.
I found Matthew, the vampire, to be cliche, overprotective, and annoying. Oh, but not as annoying as Diana. Do you know how clingy, codependent, whiny, pathetic she is? I swear. She's not a mature, independent woman, but rather a vapid, helpless damsel in distress.
(Check out my reading progress.)
This book was so bad in my opinion, that I can't even write a decent review for it. Ugh. I hereby swear to henceforth avoid "bestsellers," "number-ones," and/or "popular reads," due to the apparent SUCKISHNESS of each one. The Fault in Our Stars, Harry Potter, and....yeah, that's basically it for exceptions. I'm done with the popular bestselling books. They all suck, just like this one.
OK, yeah, I'm super irritable right now. Hence the major hating. I might come back and write a nicer review later.
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Reading Progress
May 30, 2012
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Started Reading
May 30, 2012
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June 8, 2012
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16.39%
""Be gentle with me, Matthew," Hamish murmured just before they struck the balls." Read out of context, that sentence could be taken an entirely different way.
But I'm being immature. Oh well--it was still funny:)"
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97
But I'm being immature. Oh well--it was still funny:)"
June 12, 2012
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26.18%
"I just about barfed after that dinner scene. They had berries, fish, nuts, wine, cheese, rabbit, salad, biscuits...
How big are their stomachs!?!"
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155
How big are their stomachs!?!"
June 17, 2012
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33.28%
"Uh-oh. Matthew and Diana are starting to get all romantical on me."
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197
June 21, 2012
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59.46%
"OK, so Matthew left France for England for, what, 2 days? This caused Diana to go into a spastic witchwater hurricane frenzy because she just couldn't spend a day without him. Hello, codependent and clingy."
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352
June 26, 2012
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Finished Reading
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Jun 04, 2012 10:51AM
I was thinking about reading this for sometime now. What do you think about the beginning?
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The beginning made me feel like I was reading something out of context, but after the first few pages, it got easier to understand. I'm certainly not bored with it.
