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Die Historikerin Diana taucht in eine Welt von Vampiren, Dämonen, Hexen und verbotener Liebe ein, als sie auf ein altes Manuskript trifft, das sie zwingt, ihr eigenes magisches Erbe anzuerkennen. A Discovery of Witches ist eine britische Fernsehserie, die auf Deborah Harkness' Roman-Trilogie All Souls basiert. Die Erstausstrahlung fand am A Discovery of Witches. Staffel 1. ()X-Ray Nach einem großartigen Vortrag über Alchemie wird Diana Bishop eine Professur in Oxford angeboten. "A Discovery of Witches" dreht sich um die junge Oxford-Studentin Diana Bishop (Palmer), die eine direkte Nachfahrin jener Hexen ist, die bei. surf2go.eu: A Discovery of Witches - Staffel 1 BD: Movies & TV. Find A Discovery of Witches: Series 1 at surf2go.eu Movies & TV, home of thousands of titles on DVD and Blu-ray. A Discovery of Witches: Die junge Oxford-Studentin Diana Bishop (Teresa Palmer) ist eine direkte Nachfahrin jener Hexen, die bei den berühmt-berüchtigten .
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A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES Season 2 Official Trailer (HD) Teresa Palmer Only 9 left in stock - order soon. Dort müssen sie eine mächtige Hexe aufsuchen, die Diana lehrt, ihre magischen Kräfte weiterzuentwickeln und zu kontrollieren, und den beiden bei der Suche nach dem Buch des Lebens hilft. Die dritte Staffel sollte ursprünglich diesen Herbst gedreht werden, doch auch das wird sich möglicherweise wegen Corona nach hinten verschieben. Specials Die 8 wichtigsten Serien im November. Cineplex Mannheim Mannheim on Amazon. Durch das Buch habe ich sie als eine max. DPReview Digital Photography. Have witches and vampires and demons died out of the modern world?
Termine Über die Meet Joe Black Bildergalerie Sendetermine. Sold by: Universal Direct Brands. Shopbop Designer Atrium Weimar Brands. Brilliant historian Diana Bishop is a witch living in denial of her own heritage. Deine E-Mail-Adresse wird nicht veröffentlicht. Your transaction is secure. Highly recommend. Diana: I see. So is that why we can't have sex? Diana: I love you! Emily So accurate and would have saved me so much time. Should have read this first!
Oct 29, AM. Kaye Seems about right. Keep waiting for the good part. Or the interesting part. Or for anything to actually happen. Nov 01, AM. Feb 11, Sasha Alsberg rated it it was amazing.
View all 24 comments. Apr 02, Catie rated it it was ok Shelves: series , read-in , romance , paranormal.
This book kept me hanging on just enough to stop me from abandoning it. The history and science buffs will be turned off by the cheesy center, and the romance lovers will resent having to wade through pages of endless description and detail just to get to the This book kept me hanging on just enough to stop me from abandoning it.
The history and science buffs will be turned off by the cheesy center, and the romance lovers will resent having to wade through pages of endless description and detail just to get to the good stuff.
If I am going to struggle my way through a sappy romance, the least I would expect is a good sex scene! The female lead is Diana, who is a highly intelligent woman and well respected in her field.
Traumatized by their deaths, she turns her back on magic and devotes her life to study. When she accidentally pulls a heavily enchanted manuscript from the Bodleian library and is somehow able to open it, she draws the attention of the supernatural communities.
Matthew, a biochemist vampire with many secrets and motivations of his own, seeks out Diana to investigate. Probably the main thing that turns me off about this book is the cast of characters.
Matthew will be startlingly familiar to any reader of paranormal romance. She has to be bullied and bated into using her powers, and saved time and time again by Matthew.
This book needs some serious trimming. This author is clearly a very bright, intellectual woman and she has a ton of ideas.
She manages to cram in alchemy, paranormal groups, magic, evolution, mythology, medieval knights, politics, DNA testing, yoga, and wine tasting, not to mention view spoiler [time travel hide spoiler ] before this book is done.
This book would have been so much better if she had kept a few ideas in reserve. Some of the topics, like the wine tasting and the yoga, serve no purpose to the story, except perhaps to make Matthew seem even more pretentious.
I did enjoy much of the science and history, but there were too many niggling little scientific inaccuracies to keep me spellbound. For instance, Matthew has apparently mapped the DNA of enough witches and other supernatural beings to be able to locate and identify markers of different magical powers, not to mention create a map of the different lineages of witch families.
However, he is somehow unable to use the same information to determine whether the different supernatural groups witches, vampires, and daemons are genetically related.
This book is absolutely not for me. However, if you are an intellectual person with a love of sweet, "courtly love" type romances, and macho-man heroes, then I think you might like this one.
View all 66 comments. For mere two bucks I rescued this book from a dusty shelf of a local Goodwill store, adopting it with high hopes. For free, I returned it to the same shelf a few weeks later with dejected feeling, sandwiching it between a rejected copy of 'Twilight' and a tattered paperback with a shirtless guy on the cover.
At least it found its rightful spot. And I'm out only two dollars. And I would have gladly paid more to free my own bookshelf of this book. So it goes.
My books mercilessly rejected the intrude For mere two bucks I rescued this book from a dusty shelf of a local Goodwill store, adopting it with high hopes.
My books mercilessly rejected the intruder. No sappy teen romance, no supernatural entities masking as high school bad boys, no helpless heroines in need of rescue as Diana, the protagonist, is supposedly from a strong magical line herself.
The reality of it was a book that many characterized as 'Twilight' for adults, which is an uncannily accurate description.
We have a whiny insecure heroine her personality is roughly that of a wet dishrag who nevertheless is treated like a special snowflake for no reason whatsoever, who falls head over heels over the first remotely hot and mind-bogglingly rich vampire who a doesn't really need to drink blood, b has an insane amount of 'protectiveness' which really boils down to stalking and over-macho patriarchalism, c is hauntingly tortured by his dark past, and d is an intolerable self-centered rage-prone jerkass.
Before my brain explodes with distaste, here is a brief list of things that are NOT sexy or attractive: stalking, kidnapping, drugging an unsuspecting person, patronizing, condescension, snobbery, uncontrollable anger, murderous tendencies, codependency, and neverending smug name-dropping.
Here is a brief list of things that do not have to happen when heroine falls in love : helplessness, fully surrendering control, dramatic drop in intelligence, sudden childishness, unexplained neverending sniffing of the male love interest, need to be constantly rescued, codependency, and propensity for irrational acts.
Please feel free to add to any of the lists above. On the other thought, wine tends to make me sleepy. So does this book. It would have been quite a snoozefest combo.
Not to mention the absolutely ridiculous amount of page space given to an inter-species yoga session. Could have been worse, I suppose; it could have been vampire baseball.
Or vampire cross-stitching, for all the excitement it brings. Because of such insane repetitive padding of the tiny meager plot lines, the sizable book comes to an end right as real plot is about to start unfolding.
Basically, it ends at the point where most self-respecting books would start but of course, those self-respecting books would not have subjected the reader to such a hefty amount of tedious, superfluous detail to wonder whether the author was paid per word written.
In a nutshell, this book was boring and unoriginal, needlessly long and devoid of any exciting plot, full of filler exposition, and perpetuating ridiculous ideas about the roles of male and female love interests.
Shame that such a dreck gets such a lovely cover. We are complying with her request and have removed all her quotes.
To see the DMCA takedown, please click here. I wonder if the slew of negative reviews is in any way responsible for this silliness.
View all 69 comments. Apr 19, kari rated it did not like it Shelves: books-i-choose-not-to-finish.
I thought this was going to be a really entertaining read, but I'm giving up. The main character makes no sense, whatsoever. We're told that she isn't able to do magic and then she does magic.
And then we have the vampire sneaking in her window and watching her sleep, fascinated by her sleeping. Where have I read this before?
Let's see I don't care that she glows when she sleeps. I already know it's because it's linked to her ignoring her magic or because it's trapped inside her or because she's simply too cheap to buy a nightlight yes, I made that last one up , but I'm not really intrigued enough to find out.
What I've learned thus far is that the author is very proud of her knowledge of Oxford and the library there. I could have used far less information about walking around the town, where she goes rowing, where she's sitting in the library for gosh sakes and other unimportant minutiae.
I got this book before it was listed as part of a trilogy. I might have found the energy to finish this one off, but I can't imagine reading three books like this one.
Nope, not gonna do it. Fifty pages. That's it. Thank you and good night! I've actually stopped reading a book that I felt was a waste of time. I didn't think I would, but I did it.
Yes, I know it's a small thing to celebrate, but I'm going to do my happy dance anyway! At first, I really thought this was going to be at least a 4 star book.
It was interesting and full of detail! Then suddenly, it wasn't. Wasn't interesting, that is. Oh, it was still full of detail, don't worry.
Details about how they appreciatively sniffed wine. Details about different kinds of tea. Details about the layouts of old buildings. Details about rugs and furniture.
And just when I started to think I couldn't take it anymore Yes, yes! I get it! She likes 2. She likes tea!
He likes wine! After pages I don't give a shit what it smelled like! Enough already! But it was too little, too late. Let me rephrase that, it was too much , too late.
Suddenly there were huge info dumps, which would have been great had they been spaced out over the entire book. It looks like this is a trilogy, but I seriously doubt I'm going to attempt to read any more of these.
It looks like the author did a lot of research to bring this book to life, but it just wasn't for me. I'd recommend this to someone who enjoys slow-paced books with a lot of attention to detail.
It's quite difficult to gather my thoughts well enough to manage a review. I don't know how or where to begin.
I started this book 4 evenings ago, and all I really knew about it was that it was a Witches and Vampires book.
Fine, I'll give that a go. Upon checking, I then found that this book is almost pages long, which is more than almost all of my fantasy DTB's.
I started reading this book ju It's quite difficult to gather my thoughts well enough to manage a review. I started reading this book just after midnight, thinking I might see how it started before I got some sleep.
So not stop is what I did I just kept on reading for 7 hours straight, until my alarm went off and tried to wake me. Oops, I'd forgotten to sleep It has been a very long time since I have read a book that so captivated me and enthralled me.
I've read the book, now, in four long sittings, and the only reason I didn't read it all in one sitting is because my body couldn't handle it and I needed to work.
I will not go too much into the actual contents of the book, since experiencing it all was a pleasure I wish all of you to experience unblemished by my spoilers.
That being said, this is a paranormal romance story, which should on it's own turn me flying as fast and far away as I could muster my body, but it is so beautifully crafted and the romance is so 'mild', that it wasn't a bother at all.
Quite to the contrary, the romance is the glue that keeps the story going. There are some faults with the book, for sure, but it's still such an excellent book that the good outweighs the bad View all 53 comments.
Apr 13, Jilly rated it it was amazing Shelves: fiction , favorites. I just finished this book last night, and I was blown away by it.
This is easily going to be the best book that I will read this year, and is going in my top 10 list of best fiction books of all time!
Excellent fiction is not always easy to come by. I don't mind mediocre reads from time to time, but it is SO GREAT to be totally stunned by an indescribably excellent book every once in awhile!
For one thing, this book is so well-written. The author HOLY. The author has a beautiful way with words, and her descriptions are eloquent and lovely.
There was a seamless flow to this book that was exquisite. Nothing was choppy or out of place; the rhythm, pacing, and phrases used flowed so effortlessly that I was never distracted by the writing or the language as sometimes happens in fiction.
Because of this, I was able to get completely lost in this world; and boy was I! Also, the characters were strong and interesting.
Knowing that this is the first in what is supposed to be a trilogy, you get a good base understanding of the main and supporting characters with the full knowledge that a deeper relationship with them will come as the story continues to unfold.
I have read a few reviews that say the beginning of this book is boring; I did not find it so. I was instantly mesmerized and drawn in. I knew that the author was setting the stage for all that was to come, and while it may seem slow at first, you will be very grateful as you continue in the book.
Once I got into the "thick" of things, I was grateful to have waded through the beginning, as it gave me a strong foundation for all of the character developments and plot twists that arose throughout the story.
However will I do that?!?! I tend to get very emotionally involved with books and characters that I love; I already miss spending time with these characters and I am desperate to continue living in their magical world!
Dear Ms. Harkness, I am under your spell, please put me out of my misery and publish the next installment soon!!!! March 24, beginning 27th re-read July 9, finished 27th re-read View all 38 comments.
Feb 14, Kat Hooper rated it did not like it. Diana Bishop, descendant of the famous Bridget Bishop of Salem, Massachusetts, turned her back on her natural powers after her parents were killed when she was a child.
Instead, she relied on her brain power, went to Oxford and Yale, and became a well-known researcher in the field of history of science.
But when she calls the book known as Ashmole from the stacks, she can feel its power and she can see hidden writing moving on its pages.
After reading the blurbs about A Discovery of Witches, this was a book I was eagerly waiting for. I love academic settings especially Oxford , old libraries, and the blend of history and science.
And I did enjoy much of A Discovery of Witches for this reason. Diana Bishop is an urban fantasy heroine that I can relate to.
I understood her goals and interests and the way that her focus on academic pursuits makes her slightly awkward and absent-minded elsewhere.
Thus, A Discovery of Witches had a lot of potential for me, but there were three problems that sapped my enjoyment: The first is that the book is simply way too long.
With nearly pages to work with, Deborah Harkness should have been able to get these interesting ideas farther off the ground. I was frustrated that, by the end, it had become clear that A Discovery of Witches is the first novel in a series.
In this first installment, Harkness carefully develops the characters and sets up the romance. There is a lot of sitting in the library, hanging around various houses, talking, drinking tea, and eating.
The story covers only about a month of time and I think I witnessed nearly everything Diana ate and drank during that month.
Vampires are just not sexy to me and I had a hard time believing that an overprotective, angry, admittedly murderous vampire would be attractive to an independently-minded academic.
Not to mention that his body is cold and his heart beats only rarely. He even binds her with an oath without her permission. I find this kind of behavior in a courting male insufferable.
In some ways, A Discovery of Witches felt like Twilight for middle-aged academics. The most unbelievable part of the entire romance, though is that [removed spoiler — Read it here.
Magic in this world seems arbitrary. I truly enjoyed the first part of A Discovery of Witches — the relatable heroine, the university setting, the focus on the history of science.
But once the romance got going and we left Oxford, A Discovery of Witches lost its charm. View all 28 comments. Feb 16, Amanda rated it did not like it Recommends it for: Absolutely no one.
Recommended to Amanda by: carol. Shelves: bloodsuckers , untumbled-turds , blog , crap. In A Discovery of Witches , we clueless humans have no idea that we share our world with witches, vampires and daemons creatures whose manic bursts of creativity result in some of the world's greatest artistic works.
Isn't that exciting? One would certainly think so. So, what kind of shenanigans does this preternatural lot get up to while we live our ordinary lives?
Behold the books that shall be read! Thrill to the revelation that trips to the library will be made time and time again In A Discovery of Witches , we clueless humans have no idea that we share our world with witches, vampires and daemons creatures whose manic bursts of creativity result in some of the world's greatest artistic works.
Thrill to the revelation that trips to the library will be made time and time again! Gasp as cups of warm tea are made and consumed! Swoon as vampires are repeatedly described as smelling of baked goods!
And grip the edge of your seat for the most bizarre yoga-scene in the history of the written word! That's right, folks. Vampires, witches, and daemons aren't like you and me--in fact, our lives are infinitely more interesting than theirs.
Seriously, what the hell is this? The best I can tell is that it's Twilight for grown-ups. And I can't believe I'm going to say this, but here it goes: Twilight is better.
Suddenly vampires playing baseball during thunderstorms seems down right genius compared to vampires attending a supernatural yoga class.
You want to drain all the sex appeal right out of your vampiric leading man? Just mention him doing some peculiar yoga move where he seems to be holding himself up vertically from the floor by nothing but his ear.
And then prattle on about how he's cold. And always has his hands stuffed in his charcoal trousers. And gets ridiculously enraged every time someone mentions blood because.
And how he maintains control of himself by always grasping the talisman he wears beneath his some-shade-of-grey sweater. And then have him ply the witch he is inexplicably drawn to with hundreds of bottles of wine and query her as to what every single one tastes like.
Oh, ho! And the witch! Now there's a live wire! Diana Bishop spends her days running, rowing, yoga-ing? Oh, and never using her magic because she wants to be just like us.
Well, actually, she does use her magic every now and then, but only when it's really important. Like fixing her washing machine or getting a book off of a really high shelf.
But other than that, it's all ixnay on the magic-ay. At pages in, I decided I couldn't stomach it any more. After all, up to that point, I had already been treated to a baker's dozen of the same basic scene: --Diana goes to the library --creatures are there; they pretend to read so they can watch her read all day, but they do so in a really creeptastic and menacing way, man --Matthew, the vampire, goes to the library and pretends to read so he can watch them watching her watch a book and protect her in case one decides to, oh, I don't know, nick her with a really nasty papercut or something --Diana and Matthew later go and consume a meal and beverages and talk ad nauseum about food to the point where an epicurean would offer them both a hot cuppa shut the fuck up --Matthew will get angry with Diana, she'll apologize, and he'll settle his ass down Round and round they go, where do they stop?
Nobody knows! Oh, wait. At the library! It's like freaking Groundhog Day without Bill Murray. And Groundhog Day ain't shit without Bill Murray.
And neither is A Discovery of Witches. When I decided I had a life to live, Matthew was fervently explaining how daemons, witches, and vampires might be going extinct!
To which I can only ask, so what's the problem? Cross posted at This Insignificant Cinder View all 58 comments. Reviewed by: Rabid Reads This book.
Have you ever liked something almost against your will? Something that encompasses roughly half of the things you hate in reference to said thing?
Welcome to my life. This book has: 1. What can be construed as insta-love. Get a room, already. But none of those things are an issue here.
By the time it becomes obvious that, yes, these two feel more for each other than trepidation and annoyance, enough time has elapsed to almost warrant the depth of emotion, and the rest can be chalked up to fate, animal instinct, mating imperative, etc.
A super, special snowflake who denies her super, special snowflakeness. Not only is Diana the last in a powerful line of matriarchal witches, her father was a powerful warlock in his own right.
So powerful that a union between her mother and father was strongly discouraged by the powers that be. But when her parents were killed when Diana was seven, she assumes their deaths were the result of their abilities and refuses to have anything to do with magic.
Super, secret information withholding. And this is perhaps the one I have the hardest time with. I cannot stand it when someone in a position of authority, older, more experienced, etc.
HATE it. But Matthew. So is Matthew. So yeah. Yet another pass. I now know why I like this book despite the major book peeves lurking around every corner.
And besides those peeves getting passes, A Discovery of Witches is just entertaining. It might have taken me awhile to like Diana, but I instantly respected her, and I was as gone for Matthew as she was the moment he showed up.
Lots of bookish fun in this book. The second that Matthew and Diana show up at her childhood home, I could not put the book down.
The house is sentient and highly opinionated. A couple of new secondaries show up, one of which is absolutely darling. This book is awesome, just read it.
Highly recommended. View all 60 comments. Mar 02, Sarah Kelsey rated it it was ok Shelves: paranormal , mary-sue , chicklit , elastic-reality , romance , fantasy.
I haven't encountered you for a few books. Now I know where you've been keeping yourself. I struggled to finish this novel. The book started out so well with an interesting protagonist, a bibliophile's dream setting, and wonderful descriptions of illustrated manuscripts.
The plot tugs at the small thread of 'paranormalcy' in the protagonist's life, and everything goes south from there.
Literally south. They leave England and go to France, and nothing good ever seems to happen in France. Why does she go to France?
One might well wonder. It's because her wine connoisseur, yoga master, Oxford fellow, French and vampire boyfriend takes her there.
Edward- er, I mean Matthew becomes her very protective vampire husband and, in spite of the fact that his list of superlative credentials continues to grow, this superman's top priority seems to be feeding her and giving her foot massages.
Apparently he has nothing better to do. Ah, ladies, what an impossible standard we set for our heroes. S1, Ep3.
There is another dark turn in store for Diana when an alarming package is slipped under her door. Meanwhile, her relationship with Matthew moves forward, but something is about to happen that will cast them both further into danger.
S1, Ep4. Diana gets a chilly welcome when she seeks safety at the Clairmont family home. Back in Oxford, trouble is brewing.
Juliette shows up and throws Marcus' life into danger, while Satu pays the price for her curiosity. S1, Ep5. Tensions between the creatures grow as the witches find out the vampires are studying DNA.
Matthew crosses a line when he returns to Oxford. Diana discovers his dark past, before something unexpected tears them apart.
S1, Ep6. Hopkins, known as 'Witchfinder General', had around women executed in East Anglia during the turmoil of the English Civil War in and Professionals who exposed witches could make a lot of money, as local magistrates paid the witch finder the equivalent of a month's wages.
There was much superstition and ignorance in 17th century England. Witchcraft had been illegal since and hundreds of women were wrongly accused and punished.
Confessions were often made under torture, and suspects were tied up and thrown into a river or pond. Floating was proof of guilt.
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