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The World of All Souls

By: Deborah Harkness
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Deborah Harkness, Steve West, Jennifer Ikeda
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Summary

Discover the truths, the history, the myths and the magic behind the first three novels in the spellbinding All Souls series. Fall under the spell once more with this all-encompassing insider's guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life.

The first three novels in the All Souls series by Deborah Harkness, featuring historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont, delves into mythology, alchemy, literature and architecture. And history is brought to life.

The World of All Souls is the ultimate companion for fans and unlocks this fantastical world, letting you in on all its secrets and mysteries.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Deborah Harkness (P)2018 Penguin Random House Audio
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Beautiful Addition to the All Souls Trilogy

Amazing indepth insign into the Beautiful world of the All Souls Trilogy. Cannot wait until the new TV series come out.

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Great books

I've listened to them a few times as im a night owl...
but I've got to say that the casting in the tv series is dreadful..can't watch it!

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Keeps saying ‘refer to pdf that comes with this audiobook’ but where is this?

Apart from the mysterious missing pdf it’s fine, pretty interesting and adds to understanding of process of creating All Souls world.

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Great historical roots

As a last read following Harkness’s trilogy a d times convert it is a necessary accompaniment to the stories . My only is the pronouncement of babes by the narrator.. Burghley, Meridiana, Huguenot etc etc

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A curate’s egg

The interview was interesting, and some of the articles informative, although mostly they rehashed the novels. I was hoping for more background and less quoting of the trilogy. Several entries are repetitive- did anyone proofread the John Dee section? How many times do we have to be told that Kelley persuaded Dee to share their wives because ’an angel told him’? The inclusion of the summaries was a mistake - they add nothing to the book.

The main narrator has a warm voice, but it is spoiled by excruciating pronunciation mistakes - not only in French (‘Auri-lac’) and Italian (e.g., she consistently mispronounces Michele, saying it as though it were in French), but also in English (e.g. pronouncing archangel as arCH-angel, Lord Burghley as Lord Berg-lee, and many other such lazy errors). She even mispronounces character names like Verin. I wish Jennifer Ikeda had narrated all but the author sections. As it is, I switched to the Kindle version.

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Everything I dreamed of!

I was on the fence with this book for a long timw because I read less convincing reviews. However, this exceeded my wildest dreams! Full of fascinating information about the history, occult, architecture, wine, food and books the world of All Souls is weaved of. This satisfied my curiosity and gave me locations to visit, wines to sample & books to read to dive deeper into the world of Matthew & Diana. Heartily recommended for witchy history geeks with taste on the more expensive side.

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Great resource for all sorts of material.

Enjoyed all three novels and the resource material prompts another listen right through it all *****

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Interesting and informative.

I loved how this book explained various things by the narrators and the author. I liked the accompanying PDF showed different things within the All Souls books as well.

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A complete let down.

Don't bother, a complete was of time. It goes on an on and on... I thought it would be interesting but just found it very tedious and in the end gave up.

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Don't waste your credit.

If you're interested in being an author this book could be for you. interview with the author and an alphabetic list of characters. For me this book was a waste of money.

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