Deborah Harkness. The Book of Life. New York: Viking, 2014. 559 pages. ISBN 9780670025596.
The Book of Life is the third volume in Deborah Harkness' trilogy about witch Diana Bishop and vampire Matthew Clairmont. In this book Deborah is pregnant with twins and they've returned to the present from their sojourn in 1591. Deborah is trying to locate the three missing pages from the Bodleian Library manuscript Ashmole 782, also known as The Book of Life, which contains secrets about the origins of witches, vampires, and daemons. In the meantime, Matthew is working with colleagues to analyze vampire DNA so that he can find a cure to a genetic disease, which causes him to go into "blood rages" when he's upset. As in the other books in the trilogy, there's a lot of action ranging from upstate New York and New Haven, Connecticut, to England, France, Italy, and other European countries. With many plot twists and interesting characters, this is a great wrap-up to the trilogy. I do wonder, though, if she will continue the story. With so many characters, not to mention the twins, there seems to be a lot of potential for more books...
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