Die Seelen der Nacht: Roman (Diana & Matthew Trilogie 1) (German Edition)

Here's the condensed version. Now we're in Elizabethan England Well, not having learned anything from the astonishing too-longness of the first book of her trilogy, Deborah Harkness has written yet another mind-numbingly long book. Now we're in Elizabethan England. Hello, Matthew's six friends, who are either wildly famous Raleigh, Marlowe or made up from whole cloth. Guess I'll describe my clothes. Twelve pages of clothing descriptions.

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I think I'll practice my Elizabethan writing. Twelve pages of writing practice. You have to learn how to be a witch so you aren't useless anymore. After that we have to find Ashmole , the significance of which is apparently nil. Hey, old lady, come and help my wife. Your wife is the devil! The big guys in the village are coming to arrest Diana for being the devil.

Whatever, it'll all go away in the morning. Come and see me. Matthew has blood rage, which means he might fly off the handle and kill everyone around him. You'd better get married. A hundred pages about the wedding. DIANA kills a witch. THEY go to London. We have to find a witch so you're not so useless. Oh wait, you're not allowed to leave the house.

Wo die Nacht beginnt by Deborah Harkness (2 star ratings)

Look Matthew, I found a witch to teach me! Does that mean you went outside the house? You are a weaver. You have to create your own spells. Why don't they use this infatuation on Rudolf's part against him, as in use Diana to confuse him, then snag the book they want? Well, because that would mean they were clever. And I am here for only one reason: That was a direct quote. We found the book we wanted! Only it's really gross. Let's just go back to England. Come with me, Diana, let's go and have fun on the river. Ooh, that sounds fun! What should I wear?

Instead, Matthew's sister and I are going to try to kill you! I'm stuck here because even though I'm a witch and I've started unlocking my powers, I am still useless. Guess it's time to go back to the present. Of course, even though we've been parading the fact that Matt is now married, when we vanish and the 16th century one returns, no one will notice that Diana is not here anymore. You've got to be kidding me. Let's go back to the present.

Let's drive this spiffy car. Let's go to Sept-Tours. Okay Matthew, you know best! One of the superfluous daemons from the first book now has a kid. Only somebody died, and we're not going to explain it to you unless you buy the next book. Where were the characters?

Diana Bishop and Matthew de Clermont leave present day London to head back in time to the s in search of Ashmole and for Diana to learn how to wrangle her powers. They meet Shakespeare along with many other famous historians. For me these books are curious and interesting, but wear out their welcome with how lengthy they are. Way too long, but I have to finish the trilogy to feel like I'm giving this series any justice. View all 4 comments. My biggest complaint with the book was Diana's character. Reading from only Diana's POV wore me down. Her decision making was foolish for being a something professor.

Forget about taking responsibility for YOUR actions. Nooo, let's put the blame on poor Matthew. Absolutely naive an "Think and stay alive. Absolutely naive and take zero ownership for your actions. I also tired of the plot usually being driven forward by poor decision making. There was plenty of material to progress the plot in other ways The magic and romance elements were "meh. There was no substance written into the characters to cause me to believe things like how Matthew is this Shadowy-- Prince of Darkness creature, or that Diana is extremely powerful.

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These two had no chemistry from a written standpoint. Again, we are told there is but nothing to back this statement up. Enough ranting for now.. What I did like: I immensely enjoyed the historical elements. I'm finding it hard to express how disappointed I am in 'Shadow of Night'. The author gets a big kick out of describing the scenery of the 's but at the expense of fleshing out any real depth of character. Diana's POV is so weak in this novel. In book one, I knew what Matthew looked, felt, and sounded like before and after he spoke.

I think this problem may have been partially solved if Matthew's POV was presented as it occasionally was in book one. I get that Matthew is distancing himself from Diana in book 2, but as a reader, I feel distanced from Matthew as well. I keep forcing myself to pick it up only to repeatedly find myself barely skimming through another chapter.

I slowly devoured book one because I didn't want it to end, only to pick it up and read it again. As for this book, I just want it to end.

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This being said, I hope Harkness can bring Matthew and Diana back to life in book 3 update: Unfortunately for me, having read the first book in this trilogy three years ago proved to be too much to fully enjoy Shadow of Night. It's true the most important events from A Discovery of Witches came back to my mind while I was reading this but to be honest, I was quite detached with both the story and the characters. I cared for no one. Everything bored me; even most of the action. I understood why the first book was slow - I mean, it's the first one and the world needs to be explained - bu Unfortunately for me, having read the first book in this trilogy three years ago proved to be too much to fully enjoy Shadow of Night.

I understood why the first book was slow - I mean, it's the first one and the world needs to be explained - but this one should have been more action-packed, especially in the magic department. Another issue is that I could have basically crossed off half this book and still, it wouldn't have affected the aftermath. As said before, it bored me. The only thing though that kept me reading is the fascinating ability of Harkness to just join the fictional story with the actual historical facts. That being said, I'm gonna start reading the third and final book ASAP tomorrow, most likely because I told myself I would finish this trilogy and I will.

This was a bit of a let-down after all the anticipation. Most of the book was convoluted with so many characters that it took away attention from the main story. There were parts that I enjoyed as much as the first book but unfortunately these were very few and far between. It almost started feeling like a chore finishing the book.

This was kind of a chore to read. I liked it about half the time, tolerated it a quarter of the time, and absolutely despised it the rest of the time. I am not sad that I am done with it, and, although I will most likely read the third installment when it comes out, I am not chomping at the bit for it to come out. Harkness' obvious knowledge is impressive, but that historian's detail is heavy-handed, and it weighs the story down at times.

There were times I had to put it down because I was just s This was kind of a chore to read.

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There were times I had to put it down because I was just so bored. Hoping to be enchanted by the Elizabethan era, I dived into the book. But damn thing was so long!! I got fed up. Matthew seemed clueless even though he lived the century once! It got good around the last part or so. I'm going to say a lot of negative things about this book, even though I ultimately mostly liked it.

Kind of like the first book. So, you've been warned, I guess! I'm rounding down, not up, after thinking about it more. First of all, Diana and Matthew are on a quest, that started in book one, to do two things: In other words, it's a very slow start, and the book overall is way too long. Like the first one! The reason why I kept reading is I do like the characters, and I enjoy the time-travel elements in the book. However, it reminded me a lot of Diana Gabaldon.

Anyone else get this feeling? Something about the combination of fantasy and history And speaking of time travel, it's really confusing in this novel. The more I think about it, the less I like it. They changed a lot in the past--isn't that usually a no-no? I read a lot of historical novels, so I'm used to historical characters being fictionalized, but some elements here bothered me, mostly because I wasn't sure if this was supposed to be our timeline or an alternative one.

It seems like almost every human knew about the "others," yet it's supposed to be a huge secret? I wasn't sure what the rules of the universe were, and I didn't enjoy the fantasy treatment of some of the historical characters, specifically view spoiler [Kit Marlowe being an unlikeable crazed daemon and Queen Elizabeth knowing all about the non-human creatures. I also didn't like how she didn't seem very upset about view spoiler [ leaving Jack in the past. The characterizations were done well, like I said earlier, and the last pages or read quickly.

The thing I liked most, though, was the magic system--especially Diana's view spoiler [firedrake familiar. I admit I needed a little refreshing of what had happened up to that point, but I did surprisingly remember a great deal about book I. It must've left more of an impression than I thought. Unfortunately - and this shouldn't come as a surprise given that it took me nearly a year and a half to read th Reading Challenge: Unfortunately - and this shouldn't come as a surprise given that it took me nearly a year and a half to read this - the second book didn't hold my attention at all. They're just so slow.

They're very, very well-written, but the pace of it all made for a boring read for me. I was less into it than book I, because I felt like everything was just being dragged out and could've done with about pages less. I'm left conflicted, though, because there are a lot of aspects I do really like; they just don't seem to be enough to make this into something I like. And then on the other hand, I'm intrigued and stubborn enough to still want to plow through book III and finish the story. I'm not going to be reading it right away, but I might tackle it at some point in the new year.

I'm hoping now that Diana and Matthew are back in the present, it might pick up again. I now have 31 remaining days to read 11 more challenge-related books. This should be interesting. I am determined to reach my goal, but also pretty convinced that I won't. The main problem is that Deborah Harkness doesn't trust the reader to get any subtext, so immediately after she drops a hint, she explains the shit out of it. She's not the worst writer, she's just a terrible over-writer who should've studied etymology before dropping "weekend" all over 16th century England. I think I'm done with this series now.

These are poorly paced and the prose has these predictable tics that grated on me after a while. I'm usually down for some fluffy paranormal romance, but this tested even my patience; it might as well have been titled Gary and Mary Sue and the Trip to Shakespeare's England. View all 3 comments. I gave in and read the sequel because as much as I disliked the first book I was a tiny bit curious to see what happened. Sadly the sequel was only slightly better than the first. The author has a strange obsession with leggings.

Somehow she even manages find a place for them in Elizabethan England. I loved A Discovery of Witches and I loved the sequel As the story progressed it became a drag to finish it. I felt like there were a lot of unnecessary scenes being added, yet it hadn't added anything to the story. This story has so much potential but I felt like I had to be pulled over the finish line. The pacing of the story is absolutely horrible. The characters are lost in historical details that are irrelevant to the plot moving.

If he asks for something or if he forbids something, it is respected. Unless it is an exception, good for the dramaturgy. Who are both vampires. So which vampire would like to be housekeeper? Because honestly, I can not imagine that someone who can live forever settles for being a housekeeper for a family, even if the household is a castle. There was no motivation for why Marthe wanted to be one. Maybe this will be clarified in one of the following two volumes, but it would be more urgent now. For a while, the action about the Ashmole is also put into the background, which was actually one of the main reasons for me to read this book.

The stress of having Diana hunted down by her and other species, because she seems to be the only one who can bring this manuscript to light, has been a motivation for me because it was just an intriguing storyline. But as soon as Matthew decided that it would be too dangerous for Diana in Oxford and they had fled to France, the plot began to drag and the Ashmole settled into the background.

Overall, the entire plot of the book is stretched too far. It could have been told tighter and thus the book could have gained more momentum. Because the development of the characters and the plot was not bad, it was just too stretched for my taste. If it were not for the over-dramatized and very protective Matthew, A Discovery of Witches would have been quite a refreshment to the rest of the supernatural books.

Although there were certain stereotypes, they were not presented too boldly. No new species suddenly appears for the sake of surprise. So the action draws its limits and seems at least on me more informal and less chaotic.

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A Discovery of Witches introduces reluctant witch Diana Bishop, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and the battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole Flowing text, Original pages. Web, Tablet, Phone, eReader. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.