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Post by AllSoulsAngela on Sept 19, 2015 16:56:38 GMT -5
There are varying degrees when a reader considered him/herself hooked on A Discovery of Witches. At what point in the story did it happen for you?
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Post by Laura V. on Sept 19, 2015 18:30:40 GMT -5
I'd say definitely chapter 9. The "hooking" happened in phases. In phase 1, I was royally @$%& off because I never liked vampire stories, so I was mad at the friend that recommended the books  Phase 2, I couldn't stop listening to ADOW, because I couldn't get enough of Jennifer Ikeda's narration. Phase 3, we meet Hamish Osborne (chapter 9), and that was IT. I was hooked. Phase 4, we find out that Diana's favorite tea is Mariage Frères, which is the tea I've been drinking for the past 10+ years. Mariage Frères is not exactly a well known brand in the US, so when I found it in ADOW, my reaction was like "wow, who's this Deb Harkness genius?"  |
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Post by jennifer on Sept 21, 2015 17:25:42 GMT -5
When I realized that Diana was a scholar of alchemy and its history, I passed the point of no return. I delighted in Deb's description of Oxford and Diana's life there. I've taken to re-reading them every fall, around Mabon, as I am a sucker for synchronicity. Diana, as a character, is someone uncomfortable in her own skin but desperate to become so, or rather, assuage herself that she already is. She's someone who is endlessly curious and searching, even when it makes her uncomfortable. Though obviously a flawed protagonist, I enjoyed coming to know Diana through the parts of the story told from her point of view, as well as the observations of other characters.
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Post by moneypenny on Sept 22, 2015 21:06:06 GMT -5
Matthew's chuckle in the library when we first meet him. But Chapter 30 was my true reward. d***. I love me a copper haired vampire.
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Post by Mz.Val on Sept 23, 2015 12:06:37 GMT -5
Hamish. Hamish. Hamish. He was the first creature that spoke my language. But more when we met Ysabeau, and even more when we met Sarah and the house. I think I enjoy seeing the people/objects who ground the dreamers to reality.
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Post by AllSoulsAngela on Sept 23, 2015 12:20:34 GMT -5
Oddly enough, it was none of the characters that initially got me. It was all the immediate paranormal action and the promise of more that intrigued me: muffled voices chattering, air in the library constricting, a long-forgotten voice -- all in chapter 1! All of that reeled me in, but it was the immaculate-looking Matthew and the depth that his age might bring that hooked me. By the time, I got to Chapter 30 and met Matthew's cooler, older and even more alpha male brother, Baldwin, I was completely, irrevocably sold. My only worry by then was just a matter of how fast I could get my hands and eyes on the second book!
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Post by lynsawitch on Sept 24, 2015 10:39:58 GMT -5
By page 3, I was hooked. I immediately loved Deb's writing style -- engaging and intelligent. I also love this genre, so that helped, but Deb's storytelling got me from the start. Everything got better and better and the characters were unique and enchanting...even the evil creatures!
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Post by tundrablue on Oct 14, 2015 18:41:58 GMT -5
This was the first book I bought after I moved to a new town in late 2011. I was hooked from the moment she touched Ashmole 782 ;-D
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Post by inspirationperpshan on Jan 3, 2016 19:50:56 GMT -5
Mines a funny story. The library.. I read Authors names to see if the book might call me to it. I was writing stuff down one day walking threw the isles of books at the new library here in Henderson, Nevada. Thinking about the books that have soo many prints and an author that only uses a fake name as a ghost writer. Who focuses solely on feedback from a secret book society when I decided to skim past the books of the section. Not sure how I got to her name but Deborah came up and I had written it down as a to look up name. Something clicked I'm sure it was the lettering in both her first and last name and they way it stood out in the library's air. But I also had a lingering memory of a place it reminded me of and it just stuck in me. From there I liked the minimal web sites that were both up kept and were a permeant looking enough to know that it would be around for a long long time. So I just checked to see what books were. When I found the book again I looked at it and had a total different reaction than I thought I would. It was a mixture of who does she think she is and what a detail that cover is..
: Ppp Obviously, I took a step back and knew I had to read it. Cause I would never and when I say never I mean.. Never would I think such things about a book. A book is a place for secrets far and wide. I didn't pick it up. I decided to let it rest for a while and read it when it called to me. Which was about the time the second book came out, it was a surprise to me. Right now I am slowly reading the second book enough to where I can read it over a lifetime and not be worried about the third. I have 70 pages left and its been a journey. Waiting for more books. Just hurry up and write stuff. Music is currently making me happy until it's reading time. Somethings I left out but I didn't mean to leave out my life long curiosity with the Oxford libraries..
It was Diana's lost soul..
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Post by daxtell on Aug 29, 2016 8:21:08 GMT -5
I was hooked from page one of book two which was handed to me randomly out of the blue by some other patient waiting in the Nuffield Orthopeadic Centre. We got chatting though sadly I have forgotton her name told her I had a two hour wait and she gave me Shadow of night and that kept me going then I discovered there was a book one and three which I now have and can't stop rereading them.
They turned a two hour wait which turned into a three hour wait into a magical and stress free morning.
:-)
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Post by jerilyn on Nov 16, 2016 12:10:53 GMT -5
I was hooked the second I read the title and the design of the cover (yes... I KNOW that sounds terrible... but admit it just a little... that covers of literature do grab your attention...) but that is the very least of it. If I had to mark a chapter that I was hooked... I would say chapter 12. When Diana and Matthew had dinner and first date. The way Diana describes the taste of the wine Matthew brought just made me melt and drew me into the story as if I could actually taste the fantastic journey her taste buds were on.
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Post by Diana Bishop on Aug 24, 2017 19:56:58 GMT -5
The synopsis on the back cover had me but I believe the first in-story moment that captured me was at the end of chapter 13 when Matthew walks Diana to the door of her rooms after she voluntarily gave his lab a blood sample and he calls her "Ma vaillante fille", 'my brave girl'. I freaking melted. I'm a sucker for mush.
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