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--> “I don’t like this one bit,” my aunt finally said in a tone that suggested that the world was falling apart. “Bewitched books? Daemons following you? Vampires taking you to yoga? Witches threatening a Bishop?"
--> “I don’t like this one bit,” my aunt finally said in a tone that suggested that the world was falling apart. “Bewitched books? Daemons following you? Vampires taking you to yoga? Witches threatening a Bishop?"
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If Diana hadn't sent the manuscript back, she wouldn't have had all the creatures after her. But then, she wouldn't have met Matthew either.
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As of 2017, Harkness is working on another series involving the characters, taking place about two years after "The Book Of Life" the first of which "The Serpent's Mirror" is due out in [[http://deborahharkness.com/sandbox/coming-in-2017-the-serpents-mirror/ 2017]]
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As of 2017, Harkness is working on another series involving the characters, taking place about two years after "The Book Of Life" the first of which "The Serpent's Mirror" is due out in [[http://deborahharkness.com/sandbox/coming-in-2017-the-serpents-mirror/ 2017]]
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The book series is also going to be made into a TV series.
The book series is also going to be made into a TV series.
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* MeaningfulEcho: "Vampires were fast, but magic was faster"
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As of 2017, Harkness is working on another series involving the characters, taking place about two years after "The Book Of Life" the first of which "The Serpent's Mirror" is due out in [[http://deborahharkness.com/sandbox/coming-in-2017-the-serpents-mirror/ 2017]]
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* DoubleMeaning: When Diana is worried about being less skilled than the other students at the yoga class that Matthew is taking her to, he replies that "It's a mixed class." While this is true, what he also means is that it is a mixture of daemons, witches and vampires, as well.
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* BreakingAndBloodsucking: Subverted. Matthew does break in, not to bite Diana, but to look for Ashmole 782 and unable to find it, watches her sleep.
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* FangThpeak: Sam does this when he comes trick-or-treating in his vampire costume
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* BlackSheep: Both Diana, a witch who tries not to use magic, and Sophie, a daemon born to a family of witches.
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* BlackSheep: Both Diana, a witch who tries not to use magic, and Sophie, a daemon born to a family of witches. Sophie's daughter Margaret is a witch born to two demons.
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* TheHecateSisters: The witch's unnamed goddess at one point appears to Diana in a moment of need as a sprightly young huntress, and an elderly ancestor of hers. Diana realizes in that instant that ''she'' is the mother aspect in that instant, with the power to nurture and give life.
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* TheHecateSisters: The witch's unnamed goddess at one point appears to Diana in a moment of need as a sprightly young huntress, and an elderly ancestor of hers. Diana realizes in that instant that ''she'' is embodies the mother aspect in that instant, aspect, with the power to nurture and give life.
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* WitchSpecies: Witchcraft and power distribution are hereditary.
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* WitchSpecies: Witchcraft and power distribution are hereditary.
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* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn: Matthew and Diana have twins, a boy and a girl
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* ThemeNaming: Diana and Phoebe, both moon goddesses. Rebecca, Sarah, Emily are traditional names. Philippe (the French form of Philip), Baldwin, Matthew, Hugh, Benjamin, Andrew, Marcus, Miriam, Ysabeau (a variant of Elizabeth), Peter, Margaret and Steven (a variant of Stephen) are all Biblical names
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* LiminalBeing: Diana Bishop. It turns out that Diana Bishop is a being of opposites in several ways -- thanks to Vanishing Twin Syndrome, she's a genetic chimera with DNA of her unborn twin brother. She then saves Matthew's life by giving him some of her blood, and patches of her body turn cold, like a vampire's. In the second book, it turns out she is a weaver (capable of [[JackOfAllTrades using all paths of witchcraft, but never mastering them]]), with an affinity for fire and water, and capable of standing between the realms of life and death, and past and future. [[spoiler: In the third book, it's revealed that weavers themselves are the result of daemon and witch DNA mingling -- and Diana merges with the Book of Life, to become a book and a woman, the history of the four races and the hope for their future.]] Phew!
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* TomeOfEldritchLore: [[spoiler: Ashmole 782. To what extent remains to be seen... It seemed like a standard MacGuffin book that has the history, secrets, and future of witches, daemons, vampires, and humans -- until in ''Shadow of Night'' it was revealed that the book is made from flayed human skin.]]
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* TomeOfEldritchLore: [[spoiler: Ashmole 782. To what extent remains to be seen... It seemed like a standard MacGuffin book that has the history, secrets, and future of witches, daemons, vampires, and humans -- until in ''Shadow of Night'' it was revealed that the book is made from flayed human witch/daemon/vampire/human skin.]]
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* SalemIsWitchCountry: Diana is the last witch in a long line of Butler witches who can trace their history back to the first woman executed in Salem.
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* SalemIsWitchCountry: Diana is the last witch in a long line of Butler Bishop witches who can trace their history back to the first woman executed in Salem.
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* SalemIsWitchCountry: Diana is the last witch in a long line of Butler witches who can trace their history back to the first woman executed in Salem.
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* TomeOfEldritchLore: [[spoiler: Ashmole 762. To what extent remains to be seen... It seemed like a standard MacGuffin book that has the history, secrets, and future of witches, daemons, vampires, and humans -- until in ''Shadow of Night'' it was revealed that the book is made from flayed human skin.]]
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* TomeOfEldritchLore: [[spoiler: Ashmole 762.782. To what extent remains to be seen... It seemed like a standard MacGuffin book that has the history, secrets, and future of witches, daemons, vampires, and humans -- until in ''Shadow of Night'' it was revealed that the book is made from flayed human skin.]]
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* MacGuffin: Ashmole 762, a book which all three species of creatures want to get their hands on, to halt [[TheMagicGoesAway the magic going away]]. (Based on a real life alchemical manuscript, which really has been missing for a hundred years.)
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* MacGuffin: Ashmole 762, 782, a book which all three species of creatures want to get their hands on, to halt [[TheMagicGoesAway the magic going away]]. (Based on a real life alchemical manuscript, which really has been missing for a hundred years.)
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* StockUnsolvedMysteries: In ''The Book of Life,'' Diana inspects the Voynich Manuscript and makes a few discoveries.
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* BlackSheep: Both Diana, a witch who tries not to use magic, and Sophie, a witch born to a family of daemons
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Sophie was a witch born to daemons, not a daemon born to witches.
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* TakeThat: At ''Twilight''. Matthew never has and never will sparkle.
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Yale historian Diana Bishop may be descended from a long line of witches (Bishops and Proctors, yes, from the SalemWitchTrials), Salem Witch Trials), but she wants no part of her magical inheritance. However, when she opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library, Diana discovers that she can no longer keep magic out of her carefully ordinary life.
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The first book was published in 2011, and the second book ''Shadow of Night'' was published in July 2012. The final book in the trilogy, "The Book of Life" will be published in July, 2014.
Historian Diana Bishop, who is descended from a long line of witches, has been fighting the influence of magic throughout the majority of her life. However, when she opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian library, Diana discovers that she can no longer keep magic out of her carefully ordinary life.
Historian Diana Bishop, who is descended from a long line of witches, has been fighting the influence of magic throughout the majority of her life. However, when she opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian library, Diana discovers that she can no longer keep magic out of her carefully ordinary life.
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The first book was published in 2011, and the second book ''Shadow of Night'' was published in July 2012. The 2012, with the final book in the trilogy, "The volume, ''The Book of Life" will be published Life,'' released in July, 2014.
Historian Yale historian Diana Bishop, who is Bishop may be descended from a long line of witches, has been fighting witches (Bishops and Proctors, yes, from the influence of magic throughout the majority SalemWitchTrials), but she wants no part of her life. magical inheritance. However, when she opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian library, Library, Diana discovers that she can no longer keep magic out of her carefully ordinary life.
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* CastHerd: The series edges into LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters as the third book runs along. Some groups include the de Clermont family, the Madison coven, the London coven, the women of the Mala Strada, the Conventicle members, and, of course, the School of Night itself.
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* MacGuffin: Ashmole 762, a book which all three species of creatures want to get their hands on. (Based on a real life alchemical manuscript, which really has been missing for a hundred years.)
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* MacGuffin: Ashmole 762, a book which all three species of creatures want to get their hands on.on, to halt [[TheMagicGoesAway the magic going away]]. (Based on a real life alchemical manuscript, which really has been missing for a hundred years.))
* TheMagicGoesAway: When ''A Discovery of Witches'' opens, Matthew and other creatures have noticed that creatures are dying out. Witches are having fewer magical children, and their magic is a pale shadow of what it once was. Vampires are finding it harder and harder to make new vampires. Daemons, always mad geniuses, are more frequently ''mad'' and less ''genius.''
* TheMagicGoesAway: When ''A Discovery of Witches'' opens, Matthew and other creatures have noticed that creatures are dying out. Witches are having fewer magical children, and their magic is a pale shadow of what it once was. Vampires are finding it harder and harder to make new vampires. Daemons, always mad geniuses, are more frequently ''mad'' and less ''genius.''
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* RandomlyGifted: Daemons, peculiar among creatures for appearing apparently randomly in the human population. They don't necessarily have daemon children, although it can happen, and therefore rely on another daemon finding them and recognizing them for who they are.
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* RandomlyGifted: Daemons, peculiar among creatures for appearing apparently randomly in the human population. They don't necessarily have descend from daemon children, parents, although it can happen, and therefore rely on another daemon finding them and recognizing them for who they are.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Diana's magic has the potential to make her the greatest witch alive -- if it doesn't get her killed, first, particularly [[MakingASplash witchwater]], which has threatened to erode away her conscious self.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Diana's magic has the potential to make her the greatest witch alive -- if it doesn't get her killed, first, particularly [[MakingASplash witchwater]], which has threatened to erode away her conscious self. Not to mention the fact that since she was a child, other witches have been aware of her extraordinary powers, and her parents were killed for it.
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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Twice: When Matthew decides to leave Diana (albeit temporarily) and when [[spoiler:Diana has to heal his near-fatal wounds from Juliette]]
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* PlayfulHacker: Subverted with Nathaniel, a daemon with a genius for computers. Most daemons that Diana meets range from dimly affable to outright [[GenkiGirl genki]], but Nathaniel is very serious and a bit grumpy.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Twice: When Matthew decides to leave Diana (albeit temporarily) and when [[spoiler:Diana has to heal his near-fatal wounds fromJuliette]]Juliette]].
* RandomlyGifted: Daemons, peculiar among creatures for appearing apparently randomly in the human population. They don't necessarily have daemon children, although it can happen, and therefore rely on another daemon finding them and recognizing them for who they are.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Twice: When Matthew decides to leave Diana (albeit temporarily) and when [[spoiler:Diana has to heal his near-fatal wounds from
* RandomlyGifted: Daemons, peculiar among creatures for appearing apparently randomly in the human population. They don't necessarily have daemon children, although it can happen, and therefore rely on another daemon finding them and recognizing them for who they are.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Deborah Harkness is a historian of medieval/renaissance science and a wine enthusiast, much like her characters.
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* SuperSenses: Vampires have excellent hearing and smell. The latter has a drawback, in the fact that most vampires find the smile of cooked food to be nauseating -- any food at all stops tasting like anything once it's been cooked to death.
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* SuperSenses: Vampires have excellent hearing and smell. The latter has a drawback, in the fact that most vampires find the smile smell of cooked food to be nauseating -- any food at all stops tasting like anything once it's been cooked to death.
