Some of the same misgivings I felt when reading A Discovery of Witches cropped up while reading Shadow of Night, a vampire and the one he loves not being a vampire, a central command type group not happy about it and coming after them...but again the fear of a Twilight type tale were unfounded.
The second piece of the tale of Diana and Matthew is an interesting historical fiction, it takes places in Elizabethan England and spends time in Prague. Still looking for the manuscript that started their tale in modern times they travel by magic back. Unlike most time travel tales where you can't run into your past self this story says that going back in time by magic displaces the you that would be found there. This sets up a new kind of challenge because anything you do won't be known when you return to the future and the displaced you returns.
While the couple gets to know each other they learn to share their burdens and secrets, how to be a team, and how to love and forgive despite the outside forces trying to stop their love and end their lives.
(Finished May 31, 2015)
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