ADoW Book 5 News (SPOILERS)
While #1 New York Times bestselling author Deborah Harkness is still editing THE BLACKBIRD ORACLE, she has said that more information will be coming. And the book is COMING SOON!
Bear in mind that things may change, nevertheless I got you a preliminary sneak peek of the synopsis [below the cut], which is a “thrilling and triumphant return to the All Souls Universe”. According to Deb’s book and media agent, the book will come out summer of 2024!
Recently, Deb has said,
Really excited for you to know more about it. It has been really a labor of love. I think you're going to really enjoy catching up with Diana and Matthew, and the twins.
THE BLACKBIRD ORACLE (Book 5) takes place 4 years after the events of TIME’S CONVERT (Book 4) of the All Souls Series (A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, SHADOW OF NIGHT, THE BOOK OF LIFE). Exciting!!! 🤩🥳🥰
***SPOILERS ALERT***
THE BLACKBIRD ORACLE [Fiction, Summer 2024]
by Deborah Harkness
A thrilling and triumphant return to the All Souls Universe about facing the darkness inside yourself—and embracing it.
Four years after the events of TIME’S CONVERT, Diana and Matthew are living in Connecticut with their seven-year-old twins preparing for a summer holiday in England. Their plans are thrown into disarray, however, when the Congregation notifies Diana that her children are scheduled to have their magic tested this autumn, bringing back painful memories of her own assessment and the chain of events it set in motion. The mail also brings a letter telling her it’s time to come home to Ravenswood—the family farm— and fulfill the prophecy the Proctors call The Blackbird Oracle. The letter is signed by Gwyneth Proctor—a great-aunt Diana didn’t know existed from a side of her family she thought dead.
Concerned for their children and curious to meet any family that remains, Diana and Matthew travel to the marshes of Ipswich, Massachusetts to meet Gwyneth. She shows Diana the higher magic that runs through her veins— and through her children’s, too—and Diana finds herself conflicted between her lifelong fear of darker magic and the tantalizing powers she could have.
Diana also discovers a collection of dusty old bottles filled with family memories captured through higher magic, including those of her mother’s. But her family’s memories aren’t just stored in Ravenswood; the Congregation holds some of the Proctor and Bishop memories along with those of other powerful witches as a means of control. As Diana learns how higher magic operates and how the Congregation withholds it for their own purposes, she’ll have to decide whether or not to embrace the darkness within her to protect her family. And whether to give her own children the chance to learn higher magic—a chance she never had—even if it means exposing them to the Congregation and their own dark sides.
SHADOW OF NIGHT and THE BOOK OF LIFE each debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list
The trilogy was adapted into a hit TV show, entitled A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, starring Teresa Palmer and Matthew GoodE.
📸 Park & Fine Literary and Media (April 2023)
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Introducing…
couples (matthew and diana version i)
decadent. sophistic. hard fall. simple. academics falling in love. quite luxury. brave. private. adoring.
All Souls series by Deborah Harkness.
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Connie I am LIVING for bat Max this is the cutest thing! (Where do I find one of those to snuggle me!?)
Also, the casual Matthew and Diana vibes? I’m not sure if you did it deliberately or if that’s just where my mind went with the vamp/witch “legend” but I love it!!!!
Okay the Matthew and Diana vibes are accidental they're just INSIDE MY BRAIN.
And it's *that* time of year where I do my annual real-time read of A Discovery of Witches, so they really are just up inside my head and I'm not even mad.
But for right now I'm just gonna go cry about how kind this is and how delighted I am that you're out there seeing extraordinary parallels in this little story right as it's starting to get off the ground. 🧡🧡🧡
Matthew and Diana forever, bitches!
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“A
ma vie de coer entier”
“All my heart throughout
my life"
“Mon debut et ma fin”
“My beginning and my end”
“Se souvenir du passe, et qu’il ya un avenir.”
“Remember the past, and that in it
is the future.”
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i wonder why i am so drawn to some straight romance in media. i’m a massive fan of outlander as well as the all souls trilogy, which are pretty straight romance series, but i find myself drawn to claire and jamie, and diana and matthew’s romances over any other pairings i’ve found out there… there are issues i have with some of the stereotypical man and woman dynamic stuff that comes up, but generally i really like the way the romance plays out… i also feel like both stories would be greatly improved if it was a lot more sapphic though,, so if you have any comparable suggestions that are gayer,, i’d love them!!
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I finally made it past the first episode of A Discovery of Witches. It’s everything I thought it would be.
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Deeply inspired by the lovely @lueurichor wonderful Shadowhunter moodboards and am really wanting to start doing some for the All Souls series...
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