Thursday, October 2, 2014

The Book Of Life

The Book Of Life by Deborah Harkness                  561 pages


This is the final book in the All Souls Trilogy.  In this book, Matthew and Diana have returned from the past to face the problems in their present.  The Congregation still wants to punish them for creating a union between a vampire and a witch, they still haven’t found all of the missing sheets from The Book of Life, so they can’t retrieve the actual book, and Benjamin, Matthew’s son, is wreaking havoc among the witches, trying to figure out how to procreate, as Matthew and Diana have done.  Although Diana is eagerly awaiting the birth of the twins, she is grieving the death of her aunt, Emily, and worried about all of the turmoil, including the fact that the head of the family, Phillipe, made her a member of the family officially.  Now the current head of the family, Matthew’s brother, Baldwin, needs to acknowledge that she is family member, which Matthew finds necessary, but makes Diana nervous, especially about what it could mean for her children.  A lot happens in this book, including some very satisfying confrontations with some characters that we have grown to hate throughout the three books.  Better read in order, this series will appeal to readers of the supernatural that don’t mind some sex and violence in their stories.

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