"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. A man who never reads lives only once." Jojen - A Dance With Dragons
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Finished: The Book of Life (Harkness) The final book in the All Souls Trilogy, The Book of Life picks up where the second book left off, with vampire husband, Matthew de Clairmont, and witch wife, Diana Bishop, returning to the present day from their trip to the past, with Diana pregnant with their twins. Diana and Matthew had traveled back to the 1600's in search of how to get their hands on the Ashmole 782, or what becomes known as the book of life...the sacred book which they think contains the origins of not only vampires and witches, but daemons as well. All three groups are trying to get their hands on this book and keep it out of the hands of the others. Meanwhile, the Covenant, the governing committee consisting of three witches, three vampires and three daemons, adheres to the strictest of rules about vampires and witches mating, much less having children. While in the past, Diana actually gets to meet Matthew's father, Phillippe de Clairmont, the powerful, unwavering, head of the vampire clan. Phillippe accepts and declares Diana to be his daughter, thus assuring her protection down through the ages. Once back in their own time, Diana and Matthew are welcomed home with loving, open arms by friends and family, the irascible and highly dangerous Ysabeau, Matthew's vampire mother, Diana's beloved Aunt Sarah, a very canny witch, Marcus, Matthew's vampire son, and his new love, Phoebe, a human, Matthew's best friend, Hammish, a daemon, and household help and loyal friends, vampires Fernando and Marthe. And, meeting them back in current times, after meeting Diana for the first time in the second book, is the beloved, loyal, Scottish vampire, Gallowglass protector of both Diana and Matthew. Soon, Diana's best friend, Chris, just a plain old human, but a genius one, and Matthew's lab mate and good friend, Miriam, a vampire, also get into the mix as several evil forces come for the de Clairmonts. First, though, we have the joy of the de Clairmont babies being born...first out little Rebecca, the spitting image of her father, and named after her mother's deceased mother. And second, little Philip, with his mother's coloring, and named after his grandfather. Of course, once the babies are born, the danger to the family becomes more intense, especially when Benjamin, an evil vampire son of Matthew's, rears his head and makes it known that he will not rest until Matthew is dead and he has Diana for himself. He wants to make his own combo babies! Meanwhile, throughout the book, Diana's power gets stronger and stronger, as she has the powers of a weaver, which is a very strong, rare witch. Once she finds the three missing pages of the Ashmole 782 and reunites them with the book, she gains even more power, literally becoming the book of life. It takes all of them together to finally overcome Benjamin, who has done indescribably evil things in the name of getting back at his father who created him and then abandoned him hundreds of years before. The book does come to a happy ending, with the de Clairmonts back together, the Covenant disbanded, and Benjamin done in once and for all. And...the two babies are showing their "personalities". Looks like little Rebecca is going to be more vampire than witch...and little Philip is already causing things to float around, so will be powerful like his mama. That's the end of the book series, so far, but they are making a TV series based on the books and I can't wait to see that. :-)
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