I’m so excited to share this link with you all today! I love this series, and I just screamed when I found out that the first chapter of the last book has been released to read!
THE BOOK OF LIFE–coming 15 July 2014
in hardback, e-book, and audiobook in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland
After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the trilogy’s final volume, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In ancestral homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to the palaces of Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.
With more than one million copies sold in the United States and appearing in thirty-eight foreign editions, A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night have landed on all of the major bestseller lists and garnered rave reviews from countless publications. Eagerly awaited by Harkness’s legion of fans, The Book of Life brings this superbly written series to a deeply satisfying close.
Read Chapter 1 here!
Also check out this awesome playlist Deborah Harkness posted! 🙂
The Book of Life Partial Playlist:
1. The Spirit Was Gone–Antony and the Johnsons
2. Blood Sings–Suzanne Vega
3. What the Water Gave–Florence and the Machine
4. Ship Song–Lissie
5. Charlie Darwin–The Low Anthem
6. I Have Made Mistakes–The Oh Hellos
7. This Woman’s Work–Kate Bush
8. Cover of Night–Steve Reynolds
9. Fearlessness–Tori Amos
10. Story of Us–Sarah Fimm
11. Timshel–Mumford & Sons
12. Brave–Sara Bareilles
Sunshine and Mountains 