Rating: 5 stars
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Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy
Tags: Magic, Deamons, Ghosts, Science, Time Travel, Vampires, Witches, Book Review
All Souls Saga Book 5
This book brings us back to Diana Bishop and Matthew. We follow Diana with her twins, who are approaching seven years old. Things have changed and yet the Congregation is still wanting answers regarding the children. They have been told that the children will be tested over the summer to determine if they have in proclivities to the higher magic. On the same day that the letter arrives, a raven dies in front of Becca and Diana with a message to come home. As well as another letter from an unknown relation to Diana’s father, her great-aunt Gwyneth Proctor, also requesting that she come home to Ravenwood.
This is the fifth book in the All Souls Saga. We get to see some of our favorite characters from the previous books. But this book is mostly about Diana discovering more about herself and a family she has no memories of. Matthew is still his protective self but also knows that he needs to not hold her back from herself. Getting to see the addition of the higher magic was brilliant as there has always been some foreshadowing in previous book of how much Diana was interested in this type of magic it fell to the wayside. I can’t wait to see where the saga will go from here. I loved reading this book and couldn’t put it down, reading it as quickly as I could.
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Pages: 446
Read: Digital
From: Library but I have also bought a copy
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“Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series.
“The Black Bird Oracle deftly explores the nexus of memory, history, and parenthood—the magic, pain, and promises mothers pass onto their children.”—Jodi Picoult
Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana’s family line.
Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family’s future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It’s time you came home, Diana.
On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family’s dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power—if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it.
In this stunning new novel, grand in scope, Deborah Harkness deepens the beloved world of All Souls with powerful new magic and long-hidden secrets, and the path Diana finds at Ravenswood leads to the most consequential moments yet in this cherished series.”
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