Nobody ever said love was easy.  Certainly not Anton, cast-off son of the evil and cruel wizard Master, in love with with the vampire King's half-sister... his people's sworn enemy and source of bloody power.  Anton was supposed to follow and capture her for his father's diabolical schemes, but fell in love with her instead, and now lives in the limbo of not fitting in with, or being accepted by, either side of the war.  Tyra's half-vampire heritage has always been a sensitive subject, the reason she trains harder than her full-blood vampire brethren and constantly pushes herself to the brink of exhaustion.  Now that Anton has saved her life, how can she reconcile these warm, fuzzy [...]

TLDR recap:

Diana Bishop doesn’t want to be a witch and she tries very hard to avoid using her magic, but after she accidentally breaks a powerful protection spell and uncovers an ancient manuscript, her life will never be the same.  This is a smart, classy, heart-warming tale of witches, daemons, and vampires, and the ties that bind them.

Title: A Discovery of Witches Series: The All Souls Trilogy – book #1 Author: Deborah Harkness Prominent Characters: Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont Recommended reader age: 15+ Sexual content level: Very light, nearly none

Thoughts:

Starting out, I expected not to like this book.  I’m not sure why [...]