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Description: We started out thinking we’d just examine two of the sidekicks in this trilogy (Hancock and Domenico), but we wound up examining others as well! We touch on Miriam, Hamish, Sarah and some of the situations they deal with. We contend that the secondary characters are the ultimate drivers of the story! Also, stay […]

Description: The reader, like the collective heap of vampire and witch, is splashed into 1590, and it seems the temperature not as quite as comfortable as we had hoped! In this episode, we explore the first two chapters of our favorite book in this series, Shadow of Night. We find that Matthew Clairmont’s past is […]

Weekly Geek – Installment 1: ‘The Discovery of Witches’ Welcome to our first installment of “Weekly Geek!”  For this installment, we decided to start at the beginning – the very beginning.   Today’s adventure in this trilogy touches on one of our geekly themes – the importance of names – and in turn, it provides us […]

Dr. John Dee (… and a tree 😆) Description: Life for Diana and Matthew in the 16th Century appears to be going as planned; Diana is learning new tricks and tips when it comes to her magic, and Matthew is doing what he does to keep the crown, the congregation & the order sated. George […]

‘Tis the season! Let’s celebrate the day Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont met! Oh, and the Equinox– that too! The time has come! Mabon will be here on the 21st, the days are about to shorten, and we all get prepared for the dark! For those of you who actually harvest, it’s time to store […]

We went a little Dracula-dramatic for this promo pic. If we were feeling extra, we’d add drops of blood, but alas … Description: Well, the title tells the story. Wordplay: Matthew Clairmont and Philippe de Clermont have words to throw at each other! Sharp and pointed like the swords they pick up later, we learn […]

Diana + Corra are not to be trifled with, Matthew! Description: Gifts, Noblety™, hunting (in 1591, and in present-day), suspicion, submission, reverence, and BENJAMIN?! Yeah, this was a trip. Buckle up, because we may lose a hubcap, or four! We watch Matthew attempt to handle the current females in his life; with Šárka he has […]

“Gallowglass” – from FetchGoodyAlsop Welcome back to Weekly Geek! We wish we could say we were on a lovely summer holiday, but sadly our absence was due to the inconveniences of pesky real-life chores and necessities! Suffice it to say, we have a lot of interesting activities and topics planned for the coming months! We […]

Welp! It’s a thing that’s happened before! Surprised? Matthew and Diana sure were. Description: Vampires and witches having babies?! Meh, that’s old news to Ysabeau. But it’s new to Matthew and Diana … and us, kind of! The secrets in this chapter have us all reeling, and it’s quite a ride.This is a long one, […]

“Beware the witch with the blood of the …” Wait! How’d did that prophecy go? 😜 Description: Diana finds herself tied up, and negotiating with two creatures who have decided they hate her, and want her gone. When we first open this chapter, it’s hard to say how she’ll wriggle herself out of this mess. […]

Mont St. Michel – image source: http://mapio.net/pic/p-9455636/ Description: Off to Sept-Tours we go! 1590’s style! As we travel with Matthew and Diana, we make a few stops. With each step closer to Philippe de Clermont, we not only wonder about him, but we start to really think about who Matthew de Clermont is! Diana Bishop […]

Our author set off a mini Serpent’s Mirror frenzy a while ago when she switched her social media banners to the “Serpent’s Mirror-inspired” one pictured below.  It’s a lovely compendium of images. She included some familiar ones: the alchemical Sun King image from the US edition cover of A Discovery of Witches, perhaps symbolic of […]

Poor Sarah! 😞 Description: To put it simply, we LOVE this chapter. This is the first time we get a glimpse of Sarah and Diana actually working together on magic. It was all so peaceful until the radio decided to suggest a playlist familiar to most of us born prior to 1985, and — now […]

Ah, the Ridiculously Random Recap!  Why the name?  Because it’s a recap.  And it’s random (ridiculously so).  There is no rhyme, reason or rationale, reference its recurring release.  Also, alliterations are almost always adored by able, yet addled daemons! Welcome to Issue 6!  We are covering the 24th of September, 2015 through today!  We have […]