A Discovery of Witches

reread from back in high school. the only thing i remembered abut this series was 1. i remembered liking it better than twilight, and 2., good romance
things i liked about this book:
-writing style is high quality
-the academia mixed with magic. topic tier. love this
- could've been a little bit slower burn but romance is still good
things i didn't like:

DIANA doesn't freaking do ANYTHING for like the entire book. all of her decisions are so slow and felt so off-kilter. Like if I found out ashmole 29492340 was actually super important, the next page you'd see me go look for it again!! and figure stuff the heck out!! but this takes CHAPTERS to do. Why??? mostly because she's living a calm academia life and doing weird yoga with matthew. and then she finds out she has capabilities for a million gazillion witch powers. and does she do anything about it? NT FOR SO. MANY. CHAPTERS. like?? girl if you're so strong an independent why don't you go try to develop these powers instead of just being a victim and letting the situations PULLL them out of you?
Also, Matthew felt more inconsistent than the first time i read these. i was annoyed. Half of the time he's like no Diana i have to protect you. you can't do this. you can't do that. don't watch me eat animals even though we're married and i kno u kno i'm a vampire. u are only to be protected. but THEN (finally) he's also like “you need to become stronger and train”.
I just felt like diana was such a victim of the plot and didn't make a ton of decisions on her own. without being pushed into them CHAPTERS LATER than when she probably should have already decided.