A Discovery of Witches

A Discovery of Witches

2011 • 579 pages

Ratings448

Average rating3.7

15

I was so excited when I found this at a bookstore - a book about magic with adult main characters! At All Souls! I've been to All Souls!

It turns out that I'm too old for this book. I bet I would have liked this as a teenager.... but maybe not post-#MeToo. It's just not at all fun to read about a man bossing around his girlfriend. We need a new vampire romance trope where the vampire men rate a cut above human men because they know how shitty toxic masculinity is since they've been living for thousands of years.

The characters don't feel like adults at all, sadly. I used to wonder if I would ever outgrow YA; not that I think that's something that should happen! But I've definitely outgrown this type of YA.

November 7, 2018