Except Kit, that is, he assumes he's cheating on Matthew of course. So, all of Matthew's friends think Matthew married her because of this - either she the father died, or left her, or she was raped. They decide not to use any form of birth control - an herbal tea in 1590. They are officially married and have sex for the first time. Once he comes to terms, his father adopts Diana and approves the marriage. His first marriage is the main reason he refused to consummate their marriage. He feels responsible for all these deaths, and Diana helps him to forgive himself. I'm not going to go into exactly how he decided that, you can read it (I recommend it, clearly), but then he has the guilt of facing the father he killed. On top of that, he feels responsible for his wife's death because he came to believe he forced her into marrying him. As a Catholic, he has always carried a ton of guilt for trying to commit suicide. It was then that Phillip and Ysabeau, his vampiric mother and father, "saved" him. It's implied in the book one, but it's confirmed in this one that he tried to kill himself after their deaths. We find out in the first book that before he became a vampire, Matthew was married and had a son.
Another is that Matthew is dealing with being married again. It comes out Matthew is dealing with many other issues related to being back in 1590, influencing his asshole level. So, in many cases Diana does have to bow to his "expertise." In many other cases, if he'd listened to his damn wife, he wouldn't have gotten her accused of witchcraft in a time where witch hunts were a fun Saturday night! No, that actually happened. He did live in this era, he does know the people and the customs. Now, in some cases I have to give him a pass in some respects. Add to that the incredibly patriarchal society in 1590, Matthew becomes an ass of epic proportions.
Like many vampire novels, vampires here are animalistic in that they are possessive and territorial. I don't believe I really mentioned in my review of the first book that Matthew could be a little overbearing. Through the book, Diana, a historian, gets to meet many other figures Rabbi Loew, Queen Elizabeth, even Emperor Rudolf.įrankly, Matthew is an ass for the first.half or so of the book. Most of these friends, including those I just mentioned, are part of the School of Night. He's jealous of her really, as Matthew loves her, not Kit. Matthew is Matthew Roydon, an actual historical figure little is known about, and is friends with many other historical figures such as Sir Walter Raleigh and Christopher Marlowe, known as Kit. This book starts as Diana and Matthew.land(?) in 1590. I'm not surprised at all this book won the 2012 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Paranormal Fantasy.Īt the end of the first book, witch Diana and vampire Matthew escape into the past in an attempt to find a teacher for Diana and keep the council, the group that ensures the agreement keeping the species/races separate is kept, from attacking again. To catch up anyone who hasn't read my review for the first book, A Discovery of Witches and this one are part of the All Souls Trilogy. In fact, all my other books looked boring - all I wanted to read was book 3. And I was devastated when I finished that I have to wait an indefinite amount of time.
OMG!! I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE INDEFINITELY!!! THERE'S NOT EVEN A RELEASE DATE YET! OR A TITLE! WTF am I going to do?!?! *whine*
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