Skip to main content

The Book Of Life (The All Souls Trilogy Book 3) by Deborah Harkness Review

Hi ForeverBookers, I've just finished the third book of my favourite trilogy EVER, The Book Of Life!

5 Stars!

Spoilers below if you haven't read the previous books!

It starts where Shadow Of Night finished, with Diana and Matthew having just returned from the past. In the first chapter Diana learns of a death of a family member of hers.  Matthew is there to look after and protect his wife who is also the mother of his unborn twins.

Ysabeau and Diana definitely become more like mother and daughter in this book. They trust each other to do the best for Matthew. Diana is Philippe's blood sworn daughter after book 2, but in book 3 we can see a motherly bond over Diana from Ysabeau. Philippe's bloodsworn children don't except Diana as one of them, however as they weren't there to see the blood oath happen.

Matthew is revealed as the de Clairmont assassin because he was ruthless before he met Diana. When he was ordered to do something, he did it. Since Diana came into his life this has changed. Now, he'll only kill if she or their children are threatened.

Benjamin, Matthew's vampire son calls his phone and he tells him he knows of the book of life. The story really starts from there...

Spoilers for the whole All Souls Trilogy below...

This is still my favourite EVER trilogy just because the main characters, Diana and Matthew hold a special place in my heart. I've loved their romance ever since I first read the books, years ago. I like how there's no question about their love for one another as well as the fact that they stay together through everything (apart from Matthew's little bit of doubt in having a forbidden romance with a witch in book 1. It's not that he doesn't love Diana. Just that he doesn't want to see her come to harm).

I also love the other side characters too. From Ysabeau and her ways to Sarah and her's, they are all significant to the story. None of the characters are unimportant. They all play a role somewhere.

The villains in the trilogy are worthy villains too. Peter Knox is my favourite villain of any book series, just because he knows what he wants and nothing is going to stop him from getting it, apart from his ultimate demise. Also, Baldwin, an antihero doesn't like Diana or her relationship with his brother to begin with. He does accept Diana in the end though. This was good to see because we saw, as the reader Baldwin come to accept Diana and Diana come to accept Baldwin in the end too.

I'm giving The Book Of Life five stars! It wraps the story up beautifully. Later this year we're getting more from these characters in The Serpent's Mirror, which I can't wait for...

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Forest Of Adventures (The Knight Trilogy #1) by Katie M John

Hi ForeverBookers,  I have a new book to add to my list of favourites! The Forest Of Adventures is a great book if you love romance, adventure and history/fantasy as it has all of those elements.  This book is mature in some aspects so I'd say only age 16+ readers should read it. It doesn't get graphic but sex is still brought up.  We see from Mina's perspective throughout so the main girl in this story, who's seventeen years old. She's at college when she sits next to a boy, Blake Beldevier. He's a very charmingly mysterious guy. Mina is already in a relationship with Sam. A guy she's known from years before this book starts but she's attracted to Blake. When Sam sees Mina walking with Blake one afternoon at college, he gets angry and has a car crash. The rest of the book centres around this accident and Mina's relationship with Blake as well as other characters, her mother for instance who has always wanted Mina to marry Sam when she...
Post a Comment
Read more

A Court Of Silver Flames (ACOTAR #5) by Sarah J Maas Review

Hi ForeverBookers,  How have you all been since the beginning of 2024? I haven’t checked in much, I know, but I’ve still been reading! Last night, I finished “A Court of Silver Flames” (“ACOSF”),  by Sarah J Maas, which I ABSOLUTELY ADORED! It was so, so, so, so, SOOOOO good!!!  It tells the story of Nesta, rather than Feyre, the character which the other “ACOTAR” books have all focused on. I honestly didn’t think I would like it much because I’m a total Feyre and the man she ends up with fangirl and I REALLY didn’t like Nesta in the other books or what there was of her, anyway, but OMG was I WRONG! Never judge a book, until you’ve read it, is all I’ll say… “ACOSF” is told from 3rd person POV which I thought I’d hate, because I like being inside the main female character’s head and seeing and feeling exactly what she is. Nesta, while told from 3rd person POV though, has a huge breakthrough with the reader, I believe. She was a very hateful character in the first b...
Post a Comment
Read more

Brighid's Quest (Partholon Series #5 Review) by PC Cast Review

Hi ForeverBookers,  This book was good.  It took me about 150 pages to really get in to unfourtunately, and even then I really only enjoyed the last half of the book.  This tells more the story of centaur huntress Brighid, although we do see others stories' within this book as well.  Spoilers below! The first 100 or so pages have nothing to really do with the overall plot. It's just Brighid and Cuchulainn (Cu) going to find the femorians that killed Brenna, Cu's lost love. Cu is hell bent on redemption at first but when he gets to know the "new femorians" he doesn't want to hurt them as most of them are only children without parents. He wants to bring them back to find their own redemption at Macallan Castle with Clan Macallan. The new femorians are given the power of restoration by the Goddess Epona. This kind of does come into play right at the end of the novel but I didn't think we needed everything the author gave us to understand what Cu and Brighid w...
3 comments
Read more