A Recycling of Witches

They, whoever 'they' are, say you should write about what you know. Deborah Harkness is an American academic who has studied European History including some of its more arcane and occult babblings. She has also written a trilogy (for starters) of novels, of which the first is A Discovery of Witches, themed on a young woman who is studying at University and falls in love with a vampire. This is not really my bag. I'm not part of the demographic for this target audience. But I like to make my own discoveries...and it was a free ebook. After a tedious start, which I recognise as the authors need to display their research, the story romps along enjoyably. The only bit I resented was the Trilogy format which meant that the book really ended 3/4 of the way through and the rest is setting up the second book. The trend of designing the writing structure for TV and film adaptation is inevitable but very frustrating for a reader like myself who will never be a devotee of the box set for this particular brand.